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In article <1990Sep30....@spcvxb.spc.edu> te...@spcvxb.spc.edu
(Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr) writes:

>  I had two IMSAI systems, one with disk and one without. Since it was a real
>pain to load software from paper tape, I developed the habit of plopping a Z16
>into the disk system, loading the program, powering off the system, and moving
>the board to the diskless machine. Once installed there, I'd power it on, load
>the starting address and hit run. Worked like a champ - and you had up to
about
>15 minutes to get the board moved over before bit rot set in.

     A friend of mine would do similar transfers between IMSAIs up to
40 miles apart.  The original RAM-4A boards (4K worth of 2102 static
RAMs) had pads next to the voltage regulator where you could solder
wires to an external battery; he'd hook up a 6-volt lantern battery,
which sat quite nicely on the filter capacitors in that wonderful big
28-amp power supply, and easily kept the board alive long enough to
pull it out and take it wherever he wanted.

     I still fire up my IMSAI from time to time, usually to send
test data down a serial line to my newer machines...

Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.UUCP
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