IMSAI 8080 Processor Card?
Randy McLaughlin
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Wed Jun 8 12:54:45 CDT 2005
From: "Dwight K. Elvey" <dwight.elvey at amd.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 12:46 PM
> >From: "Martin Scott Goldberg" <wgungfu at csd.uwm.edu>
> >
> >I'm looking for an IMSA8080 main processor card if anyone has one they're
> >willing to part with. Have a recovered IMSAI that's just missing the
main
> >card.
> >
> >
> >Marty
> >
>
> Hi Marty
> Many of the original 8080 processor cards were replaced
> by newer Z80 cards. One can recognize these by the fact that
> they have a 16 pin dual inline socket ( looking like a
> missing IC ). This connected the data bus of the processor
> directly to the front panel.
> Dwight
Yes many replacement CPU cards were made. The sad thing is that so manu
Imsai & Altair CPU boards were thrown away :-(
If you use a replacement CPU card just make sure you disable any of the
"extra" functions such as POJ & MWRITE.
Todd Fischer is the person to talk to - www.imsai.net.
Randy
www.s100-manuals.com
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