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Article #621685Re: IMSAI 8080 and War Games
From: Andreas Kohlbach
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 20:48
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 20:48
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On 29 Mar 2018 23:10:26 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > > On 2018-03-29, Andreas Kohlbach <a...@spamfence.net> wrote: > >> The YouTube channel of the University of Nottingham, better known as >> Computerphile, has published a short video about the IMSAI 8080 (next to >> the Altair in an earlier video) >> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trf2Nb1mXIc> where they also mention >> that Matthew Broderick showed up with it in the 1983 movie War >> Games. Nothing new, but I enjoyed watching it. As all videos they come up >> with. :-) > > I wanted one of those 9600-bps acoustic couplers. :-) > > I tried getting my IMSAI going last summer; the processor seemed to > act OK, but I suspect the boot ROM has decayed. Boot rom? Pah! You key in your boot loader on the front panel switches. ;-) > It appears to be almost impossible to find either a 2708 or a > programmer for it, but I've come across a hack that lets you use half > of a 2716 instead. I think I can find a listing of the ROM contents, > so there's a chance I could get it going - along with my H19 terminal > and the model 35RO Teletype I used as a printer - in my copious free > time (hah!). Of course you could download a boot rom image, burn it to an eprom and go from there. But I never had an Altair or IMSAI. Only learned about their existence a few years ago when diving into the history on vintage (home) computers. Must have been an exciting time I totally missed. For once I was way too you and also lived in the "wrong country". Suppose you had to live in the US to even become aware of them back in the day. -- Andreas My random toughts and comments https://news-commentaries.blogspot.com/
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