3 Dec
2007
3 Dec
'07
4:09 p.m.
Subject: Graphics for S-100 machines (MicroAngelo S-100 Graphics Board bySCION)
From: Richard <legalize at xmission.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:14:57 -0700
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
One of these just sold on ebay item # 290186096576
I was looking at it because its graphics (I have no S-100 machines),
but even had I remembered to bid on it I would have been priced out
:-).
Are graphics boards for S-100 machines common at all? It seems not.
Generally no. They existed and were available but the requirement
was not there (killer app that used it). That however changed near
end of life for S100 as there were CPUs 8088/86, 286 and concurrent
CP/M and even MS-DOS sop grpahics support and use was desireable.
However MicroAngelo, Comemco dazzler and others were out there in
the wild. Generally though when I've seen them they were in embedded
S100 systems being used for process controls (dairy, and other
production factilities). Seems that market liked graphics and used
it.
Allison