IMSAI newbie, no idea what I'm looking at

[Dokken]

found it! a tiny solder blob on one of the switches to the trace next to it. I'm able to run test 1 now!

sorry for wasting your time today, but I always learn from these troubleshooting threads.

thank you so very much!!!!

I have some serial cards and a video card I want to explore soon. but for now, I want to get the panel sealed back up and functioning!!!

 

[daver2]

>>> sorry for wasting your time today, but I always learn from these troubleshooting threads.

No problem at all. I am doing something else at the same time (although my wife would suggest that this is not a wise move for the male of the species!).

That is good that you are learning things. After all, that is really the purpose! I also get to look in more details at machines that I don't own. I am not a fan of the 8080 to be honest (ok, don't flame me). I am more a Z80 person (having grown up first with the 6800 (on a Motorola 6800D2) and then with the Z80 in a kit-built NASCOM-1).

Yes, enjoy the basic machine first and then upgrade. Doing it this way you get to 'experience' the machine as you would have if you had bought it new as a basic machine and then expanded it.

I still have a couple of very simple machine lying around that I get out occasionally and go back in time... You then realise how much computing has come on from the dim and distant days...

Dave

 

[Dokken]

panel on, still works! only lost one nylon spacer during the repair, printing some now.

 

[daver2]

Nice...

Dave