Holy crap! Nice find! :-) Nice of you not to negotiate lol. I guess I can
say my 2014 start now that it's finalized (well one other deal is still in
negotiation so it will go unmentioned). Ended up bidding and winning an
item I've always sorta fancied ever since I turned one down years back at a
ham fest for being overpriced, but got a (well ok two .. one wasn't working
the other was) TI-59 with the PC-100A printer unit. Pretty excited to play
with it and see what the other one may have wrong. I can't quite remember
the price at the HAM Expo but think it was either $200 or $150 at the time,
although it was a pristine unit I just didn't feel like doing the song and
dance to get it down in price. But it was on my list since.
The other cool news was I just found a Commodore Educator 64 and for
whatever reason it came with an ADM-22 in the sale. The ADM-22 I honestly
don't have much interest in (has both were sold as not working). But
either way, it was a set. I could be misleading myself but I'm hoping the
Educator has mostly C64 innards so outside of a major power supply fault
I'm crossing my fingers for a nice inside and potential common 64 part
being bad.
lol although my Educator 64 cost about as much as your IMSAI so I'd say you
win for now ;-)
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Jos Dreesen <jdr_use at bluewin.ch> wrote:
The local craigslist equivalent yielded a tiny advert
"Imsai 8080 computer
from 1977".
price : 110 USD, negotiable....
The picture was a tiny B/W jpg lifted from the internet, and did not look
too promising.
The actual hardware ?
An absolutely mint, as-new, IMSAI 8080...
from the orignal owner....
with full documtation, including original invoice...
in the original IMSAI cardbox !
Also MPU-A and MIO cards..
24 Kbytes of 2102 SRAM..
all ICs socketed..
with papertape software....
handpulled papertape reader...
Needless to say no further price negotiations took place.
About the only minus is the MDC-A4 floppy controller, which requires more
difficult to find hardsectored disks.
( Original diskdrive and disks were scrapped a long time ago )
I will also need to find some extra s100 connectors to complete the
backplane.
it seems the '2014 project is defined !
Jos