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    The IMSAI 8080 is an early microcomputer released in late 1975, based on the Intel 8080 (and later 8085) and S-100 bus. It is a clone of its main competitor...
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    IMS Associates, Inc. (redirect from IMSAI)
    Associates, Inc., or IMSAI, was a microcomputer company, responsible for one of the earliest successes in personal computing, the IMSAI 8080. The company was...
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    the 1970s. This was followed by the IMSAI 8080 computer, with similar abilities and limitations. The Altair and IMSAI were essentially scaled-down minicomputers...
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    the IMSAI 8080 computer. The ad noted that all boards were "plug compatible" with the Altair 8800. The computer cost $439 as a kit. The first 50 IMSAI computers...
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    The 8080 is used in many early microcomputers, such as the MITS Altair 8800 Computer, Processor Technology SOL-20 Terminal Computer and IMSAI 8080 Microcomputer...
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    January 1975. "IMSAI 8080 Microcomputer". National Museum of American History. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved March 6, 2023. "IMSAI 8080". Computer History...
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  • Silicon Cowboys (2016) The Italian Job (1969) Tron (1982) WarGames (1983) IMSAI 8080 Cloak & Dagger (1984) Prime Risk (1985) Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)...
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    IMS Associates, which is most famous for IMSAI 8080 microcomputer first shipped in late 1975. By 1977, IMSAI's product line included printers, terminals...
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  • of the CP/M operating system for Intel 8080 processors, used by IMS Associates, Inc. (IMS) for their IMSAI 8080 personal computer. Since MITS would not...
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  • bright but unmotivated Seattle high school student and hacker, uses his IMSAI 8080 computer and modem to access the school district's computer system and...
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    advertisements in hobbyist magazines. Digital Research licensed CP/M for the IMSAI 8080, a popular clone of the Altair 8800. As more manufacturers licensed CP/M...
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  • JPLDIS. He used this as the basis for a port to PTDOS on his kit-built IMSAI 8080 microcomputer, and called the resulting system Vulcan (after the home...
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    the operating system, some notable examples being the Altair 8800, the IMSAI 8080, the Osborne 1 and Kaypro luggables, and MSX computers. The best-selling...
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    running on early S-100 bus microcomputer systems such as the Altair 8800, IMSAI 8080 and Cromemco under the CP/M operating system. Soon after, BBS software...
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  • next year, 1976, would see many Altair bus computer clones such as the IMSAI 8080 and the Processor Technology Sol-20. At the end of 1975, MITS was shipping...
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  • contractor at JPL for many years, was inspired by JPLDIS to port it to the IMSAI 8080 to manage his football pool, later releasing it commercially as Vulcan...
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  • Computer, during the pre-IBM PC era, along with the NorthStar Horizon, IMSAI, and MITS Altair. The first product was a memory card for the S-100 bus...
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    microprocessor based trainers KIM-1 and Rockwell AIM-65 8080 Based machines: MITS Altair 8800 and IMSAI 8080 RCA Studio II "Image of Mailing Box with Address...
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  • simulators for several computer platforms, including the 8080, Altair 8800, and IMSAI 8080. In 1979 Sublogic released FS1 Flight Simulator for the Apple...
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  • new Altair 8800B was superior to the IMSAI 8080 and the upgraded Altair 8800A fixed the same issues that the IMSAI did. Altair computers were only available...
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    comprehensive collection of early personal computers like the Altair 8800, IMSAI 8080, Commodore PET, Sol-20, Apple II, Apple III, Apple Lisa, Apple Mac, KIM-1...
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    were producing simple home computer kits such as the MITS Altair and IMSAI 8080. This aroused interest among electronics hobbyists in the UK but relatively...
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  • equipment malfunction, one of the programmers, Cliff Huston, used his own IMSAI 8080 computer to cross assemble the BASIC source. Applesoft is similar to Commodore's...
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    and seven-segment LED display (early S-100 machines like the Altair or IMSAI 8080 contain no ROM and when they are started, the user "keys in" a program...
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    hobbyist activity, with minicomputers such as the Altair 8800 and the IMSAI 8080 released in the early 1970s. Groups like the Homebrew Computer Club in...
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  • source all parts MITS Altair 8800 Intel 8080 1975 Etched boards and parts Introduced S-100 bus IMSAI 8080 Intel 8080 1975 Comp-Sultants Micro 440 Intel 4040...
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    include: Device offered by IMSAI, a modern, updated, yet backward-compatible version and replica of the original IMSAI 8080, one of the most popular early...
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    kits. Soon after, a number of complete "clone" designs, typified by the IMSAI 8080, appeared on the market. This led to a wide variety of systems based on...
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    Homebrew Computer Club. New microcomputers such as the Altair 8800 and the IMSAI 8080 inspired Wozniak to build a microprocessor into his video terminal circuit...
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  • timeline. Also presented is a timeline of events in the history of the 8-bit 8080-based and 16-bit x86-based CP/M operating systems from 1974 to 2014, as well...
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