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IMSAI Series Two
Dino writes "You can actually pre-order a new IMSAI here. These folks bought the rights to produce the IMSAI in the late seventies, and provided the unit used in Wargames. It has a genuine S100 bus, but also has modern features as well, the most interesting being a driver that will allow you to access an ATX motherboard via the parallel port as a disk drive."
Where is the obligatory Linux port?
The revolution will be televised. Blackout restrictions apply.
how long until an emulator is out for this thing?
Me email iz skyewalkerluke at microsoft's free email service.
Seems that you can mount an ATX motherboard in these things. Kinda neat, be the envy of other geeks at the next lan party.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
it's a cluster of computers that wanders off into the mountains, kills an ice monster and then later gets killed by that monster's relatives. i've never known what the big deal about it is, really.
In Capitalist America, bank robs you!
But then i saw the slashdot ad when i started reading the comments. It made me want to buy from penquin computing. For around $1,700 i can get an AMD server from penquin computing.
> controll my battlebot guard dog while chowning my neighbors' cat?
Any cat can be chown'd with a sufficient supply of tuna.
A well-crafted lie appears unquestionable - Dama Mahaleo
Does it play "Global Thermonuclear War"? That looked like a great game.
IDE disks? IDE disks? What the bloody hell are IDE disks?
When I were a lad, we 'ad to use 8 inch floppies.
8 inch floppies? You were lucky.
Cut to the Four Yorkshiremen sketch. Is there anyone else here who remembers Phoenix?
With a 20 MHz CPU and the expanded instruction set of the Z8 processor, it should also be able to spool hundreds of biorhythm charts out to my daisywheel in seconds and run Hunt the Wumpus really fast. This is nice!
I wonder if they're going to update CP/M to support all that RAM transparently. That would be sweet.
The Series Two is a powerful microcomputer that more than fulfills most users' needs, but people should know that there are less expensive computers available that often feature satisfactory performance along with popular accessories such as a keyboard and monitor.
You know, there might be a reason why such programs are called "WAR" dialers.
Your geek and nerd cards are revoked immediately. Someone who doesn't know what an IMSAI or S-100 bus is just cannot be a geek or nerd.