S-132 Kit for the IMSAI 8080 Clone

Here is the S-132 kit from The High Nibble. It adds many features that were provided on the real IMSAI 8080 by add-in S-100 cards. It provides output to a VGA monitor and supports either a PS/2 or USB-HID keyboard for input. You have to choose one or the other the board does not support both. I ordered … Continue reading S-132 Kit for the IMSAI 8080 Clone

IMSAI 8080 Clone Kit

I've had an actual IMSAI 8080 computer since about 1976. I purchased it as a kit. The kit came with all the parts needed for the computer except RAM so I purchased an S-100 4K RAM card kit as well. Here is a photo I took of it just after I completed the kit. You … Continue reading IMSAI 8080 Clone Kit

New PC Build

After running my current PC for 11 years I decided that it was time to build a new computer. The old one was powered by an Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 processor. I had to change the graphics card twice during that time. The current one is an ASUS Radeon RX560 and it works pretty … Continue reading New PC Build

Cord Cutting 14 Months Later

Fourteen months ago we cancelled AT&T U-Verse. We kept AT&T for internet access only. We now use Vonage for our land line. Yes, I know we could have dumped the landline too, but what can I say, we're old and set in our ways. We just can't quite give up the landline yet. We were … Continue reading Cord Cutting 14 Months Later

A Short Cord Cutter’s Tale

Well we have had a bit of a glitch lately. I realize that being a cord cutter things don't necessarily go smoothly all the time. Instead of one provider you basically have several and, of course, they don't really coordinate with each other. They are all independent companies after all. I had heard that Roku … Continue reading A Short Cord Cutter’s Tale