IMSAI News?

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Sat Jun 15 22:49:22 2002

If you look at the spec's in detail, with an eye to what the "real" S-100
hardware required, you'd see that the Imsai-II comes up short. It wants to be
something, but the decision as to what was not made before it was designed.

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoff Reed" <geoffr_at_zipcon.net>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2002 8:34 PM
Subject: Re: IMSAI News?


> At 07:30 PM 6/15/02 +0100, you wrote:
> > >
> > > Last I spoke with the people at Imsai, the machine had some major issues
> > > in my eyes...
> > >
> > > First, its no longer a S-100 box. (deal breaker right there)... None
> > > of your existing
> > > S-100 stuff can be used with the machine, and with no expansion bus,
> > > Imsai has turned
> > > one of the first open architecture boxes into something more like a Mac
> > > (super-Eeeek!).
>
> if you look at their site, you will notice that it does support S-100
> cards, it comes with 4 S100 slots, places on the board for another 4, and
> they say they have a 20-slot version for those that do not need the
> capability of hanging an IBM compatible motherboard in the case.
>
>
>
Received on Sat Jun 15 2002 - 22:49:22 BST