front panels

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Tue Feb 24 20:58:08 1998

<These I/O ports are all 8 bit, right?
<
<Now, an S100 frontpanel would have 16 toggle switches (at least - to
<load a memory address). So why can't you either

You could they didn't and they board was chockfull of crap and a little
more would have made a mess of it.

In 1974 the altair was an "ok" design at best. It was one set of
engineers vision and at that point their best shot. They did it that
way.

Allison
Received on Tue Feb 24 1998 - 20:58:08 GMT