Holy Crap! IMSAI's weren't this expensive when new!

Well, they were this costly if you figured in the cost of Malox, aspirin, whiskey, and prune juice, as needed to make one work. This guy has put together a complete, working floppy disk based system on an IMSAI motherboard and front-panel. Getting things to run in the IMSAI box/PSU combination was a challenge, but making it work with the FP present was a REAL challenge. It's interesting is that the writeup suggests that the system isn't even properly functional. It looks as though the purchase was made on the strength of the fact that the disk drive boxes were the right color. They certainly aren't original IMSAI equipment. One thing the NorthStar controller offers, in spite of its many shortcomings, is that it works with a 2 MHz 8080 CPU, which, though not what's shown with the system, is what it runs in its original configuration. I'll have to congratulate Tom Bassi for selling this thing at such a price! He wrote me some months back that he was going to be getting rid of some of his IMSAI stuff. I've long advised him to get rid of his NorthStar stuff in favor of stuff that's more conventional. Dick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf(a)siconic.com> To: "Classic Computers Mailing List" <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 12:28 AM Subject: Holy Crap! IMSAI's weren't this expensive when new! Festival ---- http://www.vintage.org