First time I saw an imsai 8080 was in the movie Wargames in 1983. It was nothing like the micro machines that some people I knew had in their homes. There wasn't IMDB or google or anything like that where you could go and search for it. completely enthralled by it and the modem it used to connect to mainframes

This is great; it's really well sourced. Check out the footnotes for additional reading material.