Website: http://www.chalkattack.com/vintage-computers-for-sale
eBay listing: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170555638239
This jewel works great (as far as I can tell) and comes with a tape deck, keyboard, and massive disk drive box with 2 Shugart 800-2 drives. It has the standard C8080A processor in it and 54k total RAM.
I learned a basic RAM clear test, thanks to this excellent site, right here:
http://www.brainless.org/IMSAI/
Here is a video of me running that test on this machine, to show that the basic functionality is working:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/Wck_8UzIzC-_VrW-giBfJg?feat=directlink
Although it worked fine, as far as any noticeable flaws (you can probably see from the video), some of the lights are a bit dim, and also, some of the bit-toggle switches don't always connect (a bit of dust?). But with a very minimal amount of effort, you can probably get this thing 100% refurbished.
The full list if installed cards:
* 1976 Processor Technology Co. VDM 1 Rev C -- Coaxial video card
* 1977 Digital Microsystems 16K Static Ram -- 16k RAM card
* Oct. 1979 Dataspeed Inc. The Conductor -- Floppy and Hard disk interface card
* Dec. 1976 Tarbell Cassette Interface rev.D Model 1001 -- Cassette interface card
* 1975 Processor Technology Co. 3P+S -- 3 Parallel ports + 1 Serial port interface card
* 1977 Software Technology Corp Music System -- Basic sound interface card
* 1978 GodBout/Compukit Econoram VIIa -- 24k static RAM card
* 1977 Processor Technology Co. 4KRA -- 4K RAM card
* 1978 GodBout/Computkit 106c -- Bus terminator card
* Oct. 1976 Electronic Control Technology 8KM REV 1 -- 8k RAM card
* Midwest Scientific Instruments PROM/RAM 8080 with 8 C1702A chips -- 2k RAM card
* 1978 IMS Assoc. Inc Pic-8 Rev.3 -- Priority Interrupt Controller card
* 1975 IMS Assoc. Inc MPU-A Rev.4 with C8080A CPU -- 8080 CPU card
I live in Austin, TX, but am driving to Wisconsin at the end of the month and can drop it off if you're on the route. Can also ship if necessary: US, Canada, Mexico, Europe (but it's not cheap -- it weighs 100 pounds!)
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