Thinking of buying a new desktop - opinions about this model?
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Planning to get one of these : IMSAI Desktop[^] The price is steep but it does include a printer. Just a little concerned about the RAM though - don't want to spend that much money and still need to buy RAM. Anyone here bought one of these recently? If so, opinions please.
Regards, Nish
Blog: voidnish.wordpress.com
That's a beauty, Nish! Go for the full 256k if you can afford it. Yeah, I know that 64k is enough for anyone, but someday you might have kids to share with!
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That's a beauty, Nish! Go for the full 256k if you can afford it. Yeah, I know that 64k is enough for anyone, but someday you might have kids to share with!
Will Rogers never met me.
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"28-Amp Power Supply" scribble.. 28A x 120V = 3360 W ... ECO class A+ !
IMSAIs really were "big iron". Half the chassis was the power supply, a giant transformer and caps the size of beer cans. The transformer, all iron, had to weigh 20 lbs. or more. But they were reliable. I still have two of them. I used one for embedded development for over 15 years.
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A friend of mine used to have one of these, so here goes: 1. The advertisment displays a printer, but it's not listed in the specification. 2. The HDD is a little skimpy by today's standards. 3. Ditto for the memory. 4. Lastly, I recommend buying 4 of these, and running them in parallel so as to get true 32-bit processing. :)
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. --Winston Churchill
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IMSAIs really were "big iron". Half the chassis was the power supply, a giant transformer and caps the size of beer cans. The transformer, all iron, had to weigh 20 lbs. or more. But they were reliable. I still have two of them. I used one for embedded development for over 15 years.
That was a bit before my time but being a "hobby electronics engineer" I can imagine - you probably didn't need to turn on the radiator in that room :D
Member 11034806 wrote:
I used one for embedded development for over 15 years.
wow!
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Planning to get one of these : IMSAI Desktop[^] The price is steep but it does include a printer. Just a little concerned about the RAM though - don't want to spend that much money and still need to buy RAM. Anyone here bought one of these recently? If so, opinions please.
Regards, Nish
Blog: voidnish.wordpress.com
I personally wouldn't pay over 5499 for that. You're not getting a good deal if you pay more than that cause the power supply is only 28 amp.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote:
1. The advertisment displays a printer, but it's not listed in the specification.
Not sure what spec you're referring to, but there is a 132-column dot-matrix printer in the specs listed in that advertisement.
You're right; I missed it. :-O
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. --Winston Churchill
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Planning to get one of these : IMSAI Desktop[^] The price is steep but it does include a printer. Just a little concerned about the RAM though - don't want to spend that much money and still need to buy RAM. Anyone here bought one of these recently? If so, opinions please.
Regards, Nish
Blog: voidnish.wordpress.com
Ah... the memories! :thumbsup: /ravi
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Ah... the memories! :thumbsup: /ravi
My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
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Planning to get one of these : IMSAI Desktop[^] The price is steep but it does include a printer. Just a little concerned about the RAM though - don't want to spend that much money and still need to buy RAM. Anyone here bought one of these recently? If so, opinions please.
Regards, Nish
Blog: voidnish.wordpress.com
I actually ended up with one of these from an estate sale four or five years ago. Still works, MDM drives so it will be hard to upgrade. Mine has a 1200 baud modem too. GW BASIC, OK if you like line numbers. CP/M op sys. Works good as a night light. Taken it to some ham radio shows as a curiosity... everybody wants to look at it... no one has offered to buy it. No printer, though. I guess that wrecks any real chance of selling it.
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I actually ended up with one of these from an estate sale four or five years ago. Still works, MDM drives so it will be hard to upgrade. Mine has a 1200 baud modem too. GW BASIC, OK if you like line numbers. CP/M op sys. Works good as a night light. Taken it to some ham radio shows as a curiosity... everybody wants to look at it... no one has offered to buy it. No printer, though. I guess that wrecks any real chance of selling it.
WPerkins wrote:
No printer, though. I guess that wrecks any real chance of selling it.
That's too bad!
Regards, Nish
Blog: voidnish.wordpress.com
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"28-Amp Power Supply" scribble.. 28A x 120V = 3360 W ... ECO class A+ !
I would think it is output amperage (thus mainly at 12V)...
Philippe Mori
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I would think it is output amperage (thus mainly at 12V)...
Philippe Mori
Yeah, that probably makes more sense. I just found the other interpretation more entertaining :laugh:
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"28-Amp Power Supply" scribble.. 28A x 120V = 3360 W ... ECO class A+ !
I think that 28 amps is the 5 volt supply. Maybe the total including the 12v rails as well. But point taken, those 1K x 1 chips drew a lot of power. If it had existed, 4 gig of RAM would have drawn enough to power a small city. 3.3 KW should be enough to weld heavy plate.
