S-100 bus termination

From: Sam Ismail <dastar_at_ncal.verio.com>
Date: Sat Jul 25 01:38:46 1998

On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Doug Yowza wrote:

> I was digging through some S-100 cards and came upon a Godbout active
> terminator. Do all S-100 buses require external termination, or did more
> have it built into the mobo? Specifically, do I need to stick this card
> into my IMSAI?

Only the motherboards that didn't have active termination require a
terminator. In my experience, that's a fair number of mobo's out there.
All my California Computer Systems boxes had to have a bus terminator
installed.

Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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