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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.
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Man, that's a blast from the past!
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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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Excellent advice as always! 
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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.
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You're right; I missed it. 
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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Don't get robbed dude! Go with this[^] baby... I hear good things about the guys writing their BASIC system. They'll probably be millionaires some day.
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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I say go for it: at 6K, you can't get a better deal these days.
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"28-Amp Power Supply"
scribble.. 28A x 120V = 3360 W ... ECO class A+ !
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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.
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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 
Member 11034806 wrote: I used one for embedded development for over 15 years.
wow!
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I would think it is output amperage (thus mainly at 12V)...
Philippe Mori
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Yeah, that probably makes more sense. I just found the other interpretation more entertaining 
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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.
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I don't know, man. CP/M. All the good apps run on the Apple II.
TTFN - Kent
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I just feel Apple's not going to get anywhere and that the Apple II will be their final glory.
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I don't know about that - the Lisa[^] looks awesome! It's going to revolutionize the industry!
TTFN - Kent
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The Lisa is the reason why the Apple II will be their final glory.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The Doctor prescribes a Prime[^] computer.
Still can't believe he did those adverts!
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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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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Thanks Roger. I think I'll go for it.
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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.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
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Ah... the memories!
/ravi
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You are welcome 
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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.
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