23 Jan
2023
23 Jan
'23
2:05 p.m.
On 1/23/2023 1:01 PM, Mike Begley wrote:
Right now, I'm going back and forth on an IMSAI I
am restoring. Part
of me wants to do as slavishly accurate a restoration as I can, but
the another part insists that there really is no such thing, really,
as the whole culture around S100 was about taking the bus and
extending it in a myriad of ways. I'll probably fall somewhere in the
middle, but if I could ever find a CCS Z80 main board I would probably
switch to that and put the original IMSAI 8080 MPU board into storage.
I think this is a very important point. I have a lot more patience and
"live and let live" perspective on folks that modify their systems in a
way that can be returned to stock. And, I'll give a bit of a pass to
folks butchering a mass produced home machine with lots of units in the
market (think C64). But, modifying a limited availability machine in a
way that cannot be returned to stock bothers me more than it probably
should.
Jim