5/4/2023 0 Comments Imsai 8080 emulator![]() It’s natural that younger visitors gravitate to the exhibits of post-vintage (my term) machines such as the Silicon Graphics Octane or something running Windows 3.11. ![]() Even if a typical high school student or 20-something has youthful memories of 3.5″ diskettes, they rarely have first hand memories of BASIC let alone know the significance of the Teletype as a computing I/O device. 1975 IMS Associates IMSAI 8080īecause we’re located in a small-town retail block we get a lot of visitors who have never heard of vintage computing and are new to the concept of old computers as something “historic”. Affordability was a factor then, it’s a factor now. Today, 20-somethings build Arduinos and embedded computers, neural networks and machine learning in the cloud – for fun and profit. This was the first generation of affordable personal computers. In the mid 1970’s the popularity of the MITS Altair 8800, SWTPc 6800, MOS KIM-1, Apple 1, IMSAI 8080 and all of the rest were due to a strong market demand lead by the 20-something hacker engineer.
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