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Comment Re:IMSAI 8080 (Score 1) 857

I was spoiled in that I never had to load from cassette. However, I did have to load basic from paper tape (!) which took forever. By the time it was loaded, I had lost interest.

That computer ran static RAM. I remember that we got a dynamic RAM board, but it was ridiculously unstable and failed most of the time. Years later, in the mid 90's, I was working on a system that had dynamic RAM without an automatic refresh circuit. I could literally watch the capacitors lose their charge and the memory go off into space. Another lesson learned about dynamic RAM.

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