From: "David V. Corbin"
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Pobably the most complete system I have seen being made available....
Hi
It is also an early system. Most newer systems don't come with the
Digital Systems drives. This is one of the rarer DMA type setups
with the controller made from TTL. I would love to get a copy of the
Digital Systems manual. I'll be watching this one to see who
wins it. Maybe they won't mind making a copy of the manual for
me.
When I got my IMSAI, it had this drive system. I had to figure out
the floppy controller by figuring out the PROMs used in the state
machine. I wrote my own BIOS for it as well. It was a lot of work.
It wasn't until a few years later that I found someone else with
one of these controllers and actually got an original BIOS. It
was almost identical with mine ( no big surprise ).
I still use my IMSAI because it is handy to do my 8080 assembly
on ( and more fun ).
Dwight