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Cloning around

  
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IMSAI 8080 IMSAI 8080

From the Museum Collection

The surprisingly popular response to the Altair showed that, at least among hobbyists, there was a viable market for personal computers in kit form. In the summer of 1975, the world’s first “clone” computer was released: the IMSAI 8080.

Pre-dating the P.C. "clones" which appeared in the mid-1980s, the IMSAI was designed from the ground up to run software originally written for the Altair.

  
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