homemade computer for fun and experience... - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

3 Apr 1999

Well . . . I did think one could get two short cards on one S-100.   I did
have something concrete in mind, too.  If one inserts a wire-wrap 62 pin
(8-bit ISA) connector into a DIN 41612 right-angle socket, such as what one
finds on a VME wire-wrap board, but of opposite gender, (remembering that I
once sold S-100 wire-wrap boards with a pattern certainly suitable for this
purpose, and VME wire-wrap cards as well) one can, indeed, host two 8-bit
ISA cards on a single s-100 board.  This would certainly be cheap enough in
most cases, to warrant such an effort.  The software might get to be a
problem, though.

Dick
-----Original Message-----
From: CLASSICCMP(a)trailing-edge.com &lt;CLASSICCMP(a)trailing-edge.com&gt;
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
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Date: Saturday, April 03, 1999 6:58 PM
Subject: Re: homemade computer for fun and experience...

...
  What might be
fun would be an S-100 card to serve as an interface to a
Monochrome/Hercules equivalent card and an IBM-style keyboard 
Compupro did a similart thing over a decade ago ... it's called the "PC
Video"
...
 S-100 card.

 thrift store.  That would save the hassle of
having an extra keyboard and
monitor for your "extra" PC. 
I dunno - to me the most useful possible console interface is a serial
port.  I can hook a terminal up, I can hook a VAX up, I can hook a
PC-clone up, etc.

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