16 May
1998
16 May
'98
11:46 a.m.
On Sat, 16 May 1998, Allison J Parent wrote:
<> CCS, compupro, altos, Vector and a few others had S100 boxen that were
<> equal or better (compupro was really good!).
<
<Altos, Allison? All of the ones that I have ever seen were essentially
<single board computers.
Don,
Single board as in s100 or single board as in no bus? The early ones
were SBC s100 though it ws common to put them in a box with more IO,
hard disk or customer unique periperals.
Single board as in no bus, Allison. They were typically packaged in a
box that suggested S100, but were not. They were about 14"x18" and were
usually packaged with the drives and power supply beneath. The Z80 ones
that I am thinking of were of the 8000-n series, where n denoted the
type of drives installed. All had floppies, either 5.25" or 8", and some
had hard drives.
- don
There were several single board systems that were
s100 bus, SDS, teltek,
macrotec were a few. Some were complete systems on one card others
required FDC or other IO, most could be extended using hard disk
controllers, more IO or multiple processors.
Allison