{"id":4803,"date":"2013-06-27T08:52:16","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T15:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=4803"},"modified":"2013-06-26T20:54:33","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T03:54:33","slug":"the-computer-i-lusted-for-30-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=4803","title":{"rendered":"The Computer I Lusted For 30 Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I wanted an Apple II+, the movie <em>WarGames<\/em> made me desire Matthew Broderick&#8217;s tricked-out IMSAI 8080. It was so advanced, I knew I couldn&#8217;t afford it. I mean, the whole system probably cost $6,000 back then with all the bells and whistles.<\/p>\n<p>The guy who supplied the IMSAI to the film as a prop is trying to sell it now. He&#8217;s looking at an auction house and the figure mentioned in the article (below) is $25,000. I know I don&#8217;t need it, but it&#8217;s still something to behold: The original computer that made <em>hacker<\/em> a household term.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itworld.com\/security\/362522\/buy-matthew-broderick-s-old-movie-computer-possibly-impress-ally-sheedy\" target=\"_blank\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I wanted an Apple II+, the movie WarGames made me desire Matthew Broderick&#8217;s tricked-out IMSAI 8080. It was so advanced, I knew I couldn&#8217;t afford it. I mean, the whole system probably cost $6,000 back then with all the bells and whistles. The guy who supplied the IMSAI to the film as a prop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wambooli-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4803"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4805,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4803\/revisions\/4805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}