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  • Re: IMSAI 8080 replica

    From Wesley Kranitz@wordpress@wesleykranitz.com to comp.os.coherent on Thu May 23 00:27:28 2019
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    On Monday, April 15, 2019 at 10:53:31 AM UTC-5, Udo Munk wrote:
    For those who want to build an IMSAI 8080 replica follow @TheHighNibble via Twitter,
    news and updates will be posted there.

    My first job was programming 8080 embedded controllers for process control. If I remember correctly, the construction article for the IMSAI 8080 was in Popular Electronics or Radio-Electronics. I will have to look as I have issues going back to the 60's.
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  • From Udo Munk@udo.munk@freenet.de to comp.os.coherent on Wed Jun 26 13:03:42 2019
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    The first batch of the IMSAI 8080 Replica kits was shipped and people start building their kits. Feel free to visit https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/imsai8080esp
    to see what some folks are doing.

    If someone is wondering about the topic here, COHERENT played a significant role
    for development of virtual Z80 systems during the 90's, the software from that time is also included on the COHERENT VM's I've build.

    Of course way back then I had no idea that this stuff would get so far, but I'm very
    pleased to see how all this pieces of software I worked on over decades still is used
    by others, who seem to have fun with it.

    Thanks everyone for help, support, feedback and so on,
    Udo

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  • From Udo Munk@udo.munk@freenet.de to comp.os.coherent on Wed Jun 26 13:28:49 2019
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    While thinking about it, not everyone reading this thread might by familiar with
    the MWC history so let me add a bit about this.

    Bob Swartz started MWC with a product for S100 bus machines like the IMSAI 8080,
    that you can build as a Replica now. The product was YXBASIC, a BASIC interpreter
    for Intel 8080 machines, mostly written by Steve Ness. Steve also provided the CP/M 1.3
    source code he received from Gary Kildall. Of course it is possible to run all this
    software on the IMSAI 8080 Replica system.

    So also MWC played a significant role in these things going on now decades later.

    Thanks to all friends and former colleagues @ MWC, it did make a difference in my life
    working with you.

    Udo
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