If you look at the spec's in detail, with an eye to what the "real" S-100
hardware required, you'd see that the Imsai-II comes up short. It wants to be
something, but the decision as to what was not made before it was designed.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoff Reed" <geoffr(a)zipcon.net>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2002 8:34 PM
Subject: Re: IMSAI News?
At 07:30 PM 6/15/02 +0100, you wrote:
>
> Last I spoke with the people at Imsai, the machine had some major issues
> in my eyes...
>
> First, its no longer a S-100 box. (deal breaker right there)... None
> of your existing
> S-100 stuff can be used with the machine, and with no expansion bus,
> Imsai has turned
> one of the first open architecture boxes into something more like a Mac
> (super-Eeeek!).
if you look at their site, you will notice that it does support S-100
cards, it comes with 4 S100 slots, places on the board for another 4, and
they say they have a 20-slot version for those that do not need the
capability of hanging an IBM compatible motherboard in the case.