On 11 May 2001, Iggy Drougge wrote:
> Naturally, I assumed an exact replica, or at least exact in every
> sense which would matter. Selling an FPGA-based Imsai to you would be
> silly, but apparently this Imsai is built in the very same way as they
> were in the 70s. OTOH, I can't help but think that the manufacturer is
I think you are referring to the Mark-8 kit being sold on eBay here, not
the IMSAI-2.
> being a bit dishonest, since he's deliberately using (if I've been
> following this correctly) chips with datestamps from the 70s. That
ALso, the kit is being sold with just the boards, and the buyer needs to
find the properly date-stamped chips to build it.
> would mean that he actually thinks of age as something important,
> instead of just using whatever chip he most easily could get. OTOH, if
> you're choosing an old Imsai over a new one, you're essentially
> collecting dust.
No, you're collecting something historic, which is what we as collectors
have deemed computers from that era.
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