10 May
2000
10 May
'00
3:01 p.m.
Does anyone still sell s100 based computers?
Aren't they used still for process controll and automation?
There are certainly many still running in such applications (just as
there are still many PDP-8s, PDP-11s, Novas, and such), but I don't
think any *new* S-100 machines have been manufactured and sold into these
applications in the last five years. In the early-to-mid '80s, all
of the industrial applications that wanted general-purpose computers
(rather than dedicated embedded controllers) started switching over to
PCs.