21 Mar
1999
21 Mar
'99
8:35 p.m.
At 11:30 21/03/99 -0800, Chuck McManis wrote:
It occurs to me that you could do an IMSAI _simulator_
on a 486 motherboard
(cheap as dirt these days) mounted in a case with a "real" IMSAI front
panel where you hook the simulator to via a couple of parallel ports.
Z80EMU runs at the speed of a 6MHz z80 on my 486 laptop so its certainly
doable. If you put the simulator in rom on an ISA card with DOS-on-disk
technology you could do the how thing for about $200. :-)
Well, if you use something like http://wearables.stanford.edu/ then you
could hang the front panel display on the wall :-) Without the front panel,
you'd certainly have one of the world's smallest CP/M systems....
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