28 Jun
1999
28 Jun
'99
12:20 a.m.
On Sun, 27 Jun 1999 blstuart(a)bellsouth.net wrote:
In message <199906271535.AA28999(a)world.std.com>om>,
Allison J Parent writes:
Would it be possible to get a copy of the schematic and minimal text?
<The book also includes a few x to S-100
translator designs.
KIM to s100 would be useful.
The book includes the schematics and a brief technical description
of the KIMSI, a commercial KIM to S-100 product. It's covered in
Chapter 15, "6502/6800 to S-100 Conversion." It was open? I could swear I remember a really big
stink in
the DEC press when the BI was introduced. Of course, this
wouldn't be the first time bit-rot affected my historical
claims.
It was open but DEC was the sole source for the interface/protocal
chipset. Hence the stink. It' was never actully locked as a few years
later there was both a second source and a "open" spec available. The
fact of the matter is most vendor specific buses tend to be somewat
closed if by virtue of lack of adoption by third parties.
Allison