Holy Crap! IMSAI's weren't this expensive when new!

From: ajp166 <ajp166_at_bellatlantic.net>
Date: Sat Feb 10 11:49:03 2001

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>


>Well, hopefully he recognizes what a DOG this system is,

Since he knows the NS horizon and altair with MDS-A (mine back
in the 70s) he may just have an appreciation for how good it was
compared to it's contemporary peers.

>with its NorthStar
>controller. It will never have a decent-sized TPA thanks to the
>memory-mapped controller, and it will never read soft sectored diskettes


First your comments on the lack of TPA are unfounded and incorrect.
Even with the poor implmentation of V1.4 (Lifeboat) the TPA was 52k
and with the later V2.2 version 58k was easily done. For most CP/M apps
of the time 48-56k was plenty.

As to reading soft sector, Irrelevant.

>either. Fortunately, he can probably afford to put up with the
associated
>problems.


Irrelevent. He may also know that there is also very good support for
that
configuration, still.


Allison
Received on Sat Feb 10 2001 - 11:49:03 GMT