Part 2 - IMSAI 8080 MPU-A CPU Board Assembly - Sockets - RTR512

[@jpeter20]

Thanks for these videos. Very therapeutic watching your builds, and love your great narrating explanations. The relaxing quality is almost like putting a board together myself.

[@Chris-on5bt]

Glad I dropped in to watch this video. I am young programmer, but find these legacy machines fascinating. Looks like a fun project, maybe I will pick up one of the kits when they are ready. Thank you for your great work putting these videos together!

[@ShadowTronBlog]

One of the real joys of these early machines is you can fully understand both the systems hardware and software. You can compile your own version of CP/M. BASIC, assembler and C are all available for programming. You can also design your own boards. The machine is simple enough to really dig into yet capable enough to run applications such as editors and games. There's nothing like adding support for hardware you designed directly into CP/M.

[@Chris-on5bt]

@@ShadowTronBlog Yes, I love opening black boxes. Working through Ben Eater's computer theory through building an a 8-bit computer series. I think I am going to build his 6502 base kit first as a warm up and then hopefully that will put me in a good place to buy one of the IMSAI reproduction kits you are guys are launching. Again thank you for all your hard work and I am following all your updates!

[@thomas-i5o7h]

You state that you prefer the double swipe style of I.C. sockets over the machine style. Can you suggest/recommend any particular place to purchase them from ?

[@ShadowTronBlog]

Let me clarify a bit. Dual Swipe (or double swipe as I called them) are generally available. For most of my projects i use dual swipe however for the best reliability I use machined pin. Machined pins are generally more reliable but are more expensive. Jameco is one vendor I buy from. You'll see examples of both socket types here: www.jameco.com/shop/KeywordSearchResultView?langId=-1&storeId=10001&catalogId=10001&search_type_c=jamecoall&freeText=ic+socket