North Star Horizon

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Sat May 16 18:46:40 1998

On Sat, 16 May 1998, Allison J Parent wrote:

>
> <> CCS, compupro, altos, Vector and a few others had S100 boxen that were
> <> equal or better (compupro was really good!).
> <
> <Altos, Allison? All of the ones that I have ever seen were essentially
> <single board computers.
>
> Don,
>
> Single board as in s100 or single board as in no bus? The early ones
> were SBC s100 though it ws common to put them in a box with more IO,
> hard disk or customer unique periperals.

Single board as in no bus, Allison. They were typically packaged in a
box that suggested S100, but were not. They were about 14"x18" and were
usually packaged with the drives and power supply beneath. The Z80 ones
that I am thinking of were of the 8000-n series, where n denoted the
type of drives installed. All had floppies, either 5.25" or 8", and some
had hard drives.
                                                 - don
 
> There were several single board systems that were s100 bus, SDS, teltek,
> macrotec were a few. Some were complete systems on one card others
> required FDC or other IO, most could be extended using hard disk
> controllers, more IO or multiple processors.
>
> Allison
>
>
Received on Sat May 16 1998 - 18:46:40 BST