18 Mar
1999
18 Mar
'99
9:25 a.m.
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Richard Erlacher wrote:
The '696 standard defined cards which wouldn't
work with the old versions
and which required far too much fiddling with the newer processors' bus
control signals to allow for a simple and elegant design solution, so the
bus simply went away, more or less of its own weight.
But the S-100 bus was still in commercial production well into the 90s.
The last issue of <a magazine which I've forgotten the name of> is dated
1990 and still had articles on S-100 bus based products. From what I'm
told, there are still plenty of S-100 boxes being used as embedded
controllers, and these systems range anywhere from the Altair and IMSAI to
Godbout, Cromemco, etc. Cromemco actively manufactured S-100 systems
until they went out of business in around 1986 or so.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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