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IMSAI Series Two

Posted by Hemos on from the get-your-legacy-on dept.

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."

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  1. Re:But will it... by Boulder+Geek · · Score: 5, Funny

    > 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
  2. Games by 00_NOP · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does it play "Global Thermonuclear War"? That looked like a great game.

  3. 20 MHz! 1MB! by hatless · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  4. Re:WarGames by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    Most of the stuff he did on the computer was possible too. The war dialer...

    You know, there might be a reason why such programs are called "WAR" dialers.

  5. that's it by g4dget · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.