Vector Graphic restoration progress update

Andrew Lynch wrote: There was a company called NNC located in Huntington Beach Ca in the late 70's or early 80's that made basic S-100 hardware. I'll ask a friend to get the names and history, but you may have an actual NNC box and not a vector graphics system. I don't recall VG's history but I think that a flood of their hardware appeared on the junk market and someone may have built up a box from parts using an NNC mainframe. The NNC company built chassis with a backplane and power supply initially and tried to do the entire system before collapsing. The manufacturer was actually a guy who built components from sheet metal, and found that building computer boxes was more profitable. I don't know if there was a connection to VG but that would not be impossible. Jim -----REPLY----- Hi Jim, Wow, that is interesting. I thought with a name like NNC it had to be a joke. Apparently someone had a sense of humor "back in the day"! If you look at this set of photos of a Vector 1+ on Dave Dunfield's page: http://classiccmp.org/dunfield/s100/index.htm#v1p The case is almost exactly like the Vector 1 case with very minor exceptions and a beige paint job. It could be that NNC resold an S-100 box full of VG parts. I have heard that VG did sell their boards as a set for VARs. Maybe it is a custom job too, I don't know. It could go either way but I think of the machine as a Vector Graphic. Technically you are correct and I agree with you. It is not a real VG machine like an MZ but it has definite VG heritage. Thanks for finding out any information you can on NNC. I am certainly interested in whatever history there is. Here is some information on NNC from earlier CCTALK posts. Whatever they have is definitely not related to my VG machine. http://classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/2001-May/171711.html I suspect NNC made S-100 chassis and motherboard. Then people populated them with whatever they wanted. Of course, I don't know. It is just a hunch. Maybe they were the OEM for the VG 1 cases? Thanks! Andrew Lynch