National Semiconductor IMP mini

[Josh Dersch]

On 1/2/17 7:22 PM, jim stephens wrote:
> This system looks pretty interesting, though pricey. I'm thinking it 
> is going to be a development machine as all the switches and display 
> would not probably have been on a production machine.
>
> I don't think National made many minicomputer format machines, in 
> their history, someone correct me.  That might make this pretty rare 
> on that front as well.
>
> thanks
> Jim
>
> Beautiful-1974-NATIONAL-SEMICONDUCTOR-COMPUTER-model-imp-16p/
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/252700755919
>

Yeah, it's pretty cool but I don't think the seller has reasonable 
expectations for actually selling it -- the auction started (I believe) 
at $1500 (which may have been a reasonable price), then the seller 
raised it to $2500, now it's at $3500 (which is fairly outrageous, in my 
opinion).  I'm not sure what his strategy is.

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- Josh