2 Jun
2005
2 Jun
'05
10:10 a.m.
From: "Dave Dunfield" <dave04a at
dunfield.com>
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The "IMSAI 8080" does not light up and should appear clearly visible in white.
Sounds like the logo was removed for some reason ... hopefully it was covered
with a bit of black paper and not "backed out with a marker".
Hi
My IMSAI came with as piece of black paper over the logo.
I was told that it was used for early development work.
This is consistent with the fact that it had one of the
early Digital Systems floppy controllers that transferred
by DMA. The only problem I have is that the serial number
is missing :(
Dwight
2 Jun
2 Jun
7:11 p.m.
OK, I pulled the front panel appart tonight and I found out that whoever
owned this model colored the silkscreen with magic marker. Bogus!
Anyway, I can get a new photomask from Todd Fischer for $20. Well worth
it.
Rich
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[mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Dwight K. Elvey
Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 1:11 PM
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: RE: IMSAI Score update/Spare BYTEs/Got an Altair too
From: "Dave Dunfield" <dave04a at
dunfield.com>
---snip---
The "IMSAI 8080" does not light up and should appear clearly visible in
white. Sounds like the logo was removed for some reason
... hopefully
it was covered with a bit of black paper and not "backed out with a
marker".
Hi
My IMSAI came with as piece of black paper over the logo.
I was told that it was used for early development work.
This is consistent with the fact that it had one of the
early Digital Systems floppy controllers that transferred
by DMA. The only problem I have is that the serial number
is missing :(
Dwight
6:19 p.m.
OK, I pulled the front panel apart tonight and I found
out that
whoever owned this model colored the silkscreen with magic marker.
Bogus!
Anyway, I can get a new photomask from Todd Fischer
for $20.
Well worth it.
My IMSAI manual came with a paper copy of the photomask for users
to customize with whatever legends they wanted. It recommended
that you take the resulting artwork to a local repro shop and have
them make a transparency from it.
Of course, in 2005, we have new technologies for doing this.
Note that some resellers replaced the "IMSAI" logo on the
artwork with their own (like Cromemco's rebadged IMSAI, but there
were many others.)
Tim.
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