{"id":1195,"date":"2016-04-07T10:44:13","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T15:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1195"},"modified":"2016-04-07T13:05:22","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T18:05:22","slug":"retro-scan-imsai-8080","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1195\/retro-scan-imsai-8080","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan ]<\/span> IMSAI 8080"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/IMSAI_8080_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/IMSAI_8080_small.jpg\" alt=\"IMSAI 8080 S-100 Computer Advertisement Scan - 1977\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>The only winning move is not to play<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an oldie but goodie &#8212; the IMSAI 8080, a 1975 clone of the pioneering Altair 8800.  Like the Altair, it used an S-100 bus, an Intel 8080 CPU, and a blue, boxy sheet metal case with front panel lights.  Unlike the Altair, the IMSAI 8080 featured prominently in the 1983 movie <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WarGames\" target=\"_blank\">WarGames<\/a>.  The machine apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imsai.net\/EdRoberts_page.htm\" target=\"_blank\">greatly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swtpc.com\/mholley\/Altair\/Ramblings_from_Ed_Roberts_April_1976.htm\" target=\"_blank\">annoyed<\/a> Ed Roberts, the inventor of the Altair.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From BYTE, February 1977, p.48 ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic:<\/strong> Have you ever used an IMSAI 8080 or Altair 8800? Tell us about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only winning move is not to play Here&#8217;s an oldie but goodie &#8212; the IMSAI 8080, a 1975 clone of the pioneering Altair 8800. Like the Altair, it used an S-100 bus, an Intel 8080 CPU, and a blue, boxy sheet metal case with front panel lights. Unlike the Altair, the IMSAI 8080 featured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,27,26,10],"tags":[185,1147,150,1149,113,1361,1360,1362,60,263],"class_list":["post-1195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers","tag-185","tag-1147","tag-advertisement","tag-altair-8800","tag-byte","tag-ims-associates","tag-imsai","tag-imsai-8080","tag-retro-scan","tag-s-100"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}