National Semiconductor IMP mini

[COURYHOUSE at aol.com]

Bitsavers 
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/national/imp/4200021C_IMP16C_App_Jan74.pdf
 is same manual..
the 16 P is the machine in ebay.  yea  a beauty. 
 
Ed# 
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 1/2/2017 9:28:59 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
COURYHOUSE at aol.com writes:

SMECC's book is on 16 c 
talks about adding front panel and display  etc... 16 sw and 16  led  book 
dated jan 74
 
16c seems to designate  the card  maybe  16 b is inclusive  of  PS an add  
on panel and case..
 
also have a 8C book too.
 
 
ED#  _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org/) 
 
Odd I was just  going though a crate  3 hours ago... what are  the odds
 
 
In a message dated 1/2/2017 9:15:05 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
couryhouse at aol.com writes:

I have manual. 
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On Monday, January 2,  2017 Josh Dersch <derschjo at gmail.com> wrote:

On  1/2/17 7:58 PM, Brad H wrote:

>
> -------- Original message  --------
> From: Josh Dersch <derschjo at gmail.com>
> Date:  2017-01-02 7:37 PM (GMT-08:00)
> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and  Off-Topic Posts" 
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>  Subject: Re: National Semiconductor IMP mini
>
>
> 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.
>> Bitsavers has manuals (of course...)
>> -  Josh
> I think he figured toggle switches and lights = $$$$. He might  be 
correct, given the obscene money I've seen laid out just for a PDP 8/e  faceplate. 
You never know a) what will motivate a collector and b) when just  the 
right collector for a given item will show up. Every day I thank my  lucky stars 
they didn't, for whatever reason, show up for my Mark-8  boards.

With the "No shipping cash on pickup" proviso the seller  provides, I 
feel fairly certain no one's biting. But I've been surprised  before...

-  Josh