Well, they were this costly if you figured in the cost of Malox, aspirin,
whiskey, and prune juice, as needed to make one work. This guy has put
together a complete, working floppy disk based system on an IMSAI
motherboard and front-panel. Getting things to run in the IMSAI box/PSU
combination was a challenge, but making it work with the FP present was a
REAL challenge.
It's interesting is that the writeup suggests that the system isn't even
properly functional. It looks as though the purchase was made on the
strength of the fact that the disk drive boxes were the right color. They
certainly aren't original IMSAI equipment. One thing the NorthStar
controller offers, in spite of its many shortcomings, is that it works with
a 2 MHz 8080 CPU, which, though not what's shown with the system, is what it
runs in its original configuration.
I'll have to congratulate Tom Bassi for selling this thing at such a price!
He wrote me some months back that he was going to be getting rid of some of
his IMSAI stuff. I've long advised him to get rid of his NorthStar stuff in
favor of stuff that's more conventional.
Dick
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Subject: Holy Crap! IMSAI's weren't this expensive when new!
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> $5,100 was the final bid. I wonder if it was actually consumated?
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