Three
questions:
Where will you be shipping from?
I'm in Denver
I am in New Jersey.
How much do
you want?
I'd settle for a similar function for the ISA bus.
I don't have any
ISA cards to give away, so I offer you $10 per card.
What's a slave card?
A Slave S-100 card
usually have some memory, a CPU and at least a RS-232
connector. What would happend is that when your system started up. Your
master CPU on the S-100 bus would load the memory of the slave cards with
something, like the slaves own version of CP/M. You could have as many of
these things as you box could fit. There were a number of way I/O to the the
users of the system could be accumplished. One was route all the slaves I/O
to the user throught the the s-100 bus to a I/O card connected to the users
terminal. The other and more tipical way what to have each user have their
termianl connected to the slaves RS-232 port. The drawback to this method
was there had to be a bus master handling all bus traffic to an from I/O
devices such as disk drives for each of these slaves since the slaves could
not do it themselves.
Compupro made a Z80 slave card that supported between 64K and 256K or RAM
that had a RS-232 port. If I recall correctly you could only put 8 of these
on you bus. But you could hack them to put as many as your bus supported.
This is the type of board I am looking for.
There was another method of placing multiple CPU on your bus. That basical
ment building a Single Board Computer (SBC) that could use the S-100
Temporary Master Access (TMA) hand shaking. The S-100 supported up to 16 of
these TMA on a bus. The advantages is the TMA's tended to use the bus more
efficiently comparied to slaves boards with requried a bus master present
servicing them. I don't know who use to make SBC that fully IEEE 696
standard for TMA access but do know that they were out there.
I have a couple of primitive (as primitive as any S-100
board) SBC's from
whoever made the famous SBC-100 and SBC-200. I have one of each, I think,
and they're in unknown condition, as I inherited them from someone who was
moving away and didn't want to haul them.
What an SBC-100 and a SBC-200 do?
Keep me in mind should you know of anyone who has IMSAI 8080 system for sale
out in your neck of the woods.
Michael