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IMSAI 8080 Microcomputer, Used with Home Built Interface and IBM Selectric Typewriter, Assembled in 1977
IMS Associates, Inc., International Business Machines Corporation, Narayanaswamy, O.S., and Neumann Computer Exchange1977
The Henry Ford
Dearborn, MI, United States
The IMSAI 8080 was a clone of the Altair 8800, the first mass marketed personal computer. It was a popular "kit computer," requiring assembly and programming. With no keyboard, toggle switches allowed input and LED lights signaled output. This could be modified using an IBM I/O typewriter. The donor, O.S. Narayanaswami, was a mechanical engineer interested in the educative power of computers.
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- Title: IMSAI 8080 Microcomputer, Used with Home Built Interface and IBM Selectric Typewriter, Assembled in 1977
- Creator: IMS Associates, Inc., International Business Machines Corporation, Narayanaswamy, O.S., Neumann Computer Exchange
- Date Created: 1977
- Location: United States, California, San Leandro, United States, New York, Armonk, United States, Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Subject Keywords: Communication, Do-it-yourself work, Hobbies, Microcomputers, Computers, Peripherals (Computer), Hardware (Computer), Electric typewriters, Kits (Sets)
- Type: Objects
- Contributor: The Henry Ford
- Original Source: Digital Collections
- Object Name: Microcomputer
- Object ID: 95.22.1
- Manufacturer: IMS Associates, Inc., International Business Machines Corporation
- Image ID: THF155787
- Field: Computing
- Credit: From the collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of O. S. Narayanaswamy.
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