homemade computer for fun and experience...

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Sun Apr 4 12:40:38 1999

<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 on
<finds on a VME wire-wrap board, but of opposite gender, (remembering that
<once sold S-100 wire-wrap boards with a pattern certainly suitable for thi
<purpose, and VME wire-wrap cards as well) one can, indeed, host two 8-bit

Been there and done that. Also there are no less than two articles on how
to go from s100 to ISA.

<ISA cards on a single s-100 board. This would certainly be cheap enough i
<most cases, to warrant such an effort. The software might get to be a
<problem, though.

What software problem... since s100 cards tend to be all different anyway
it would be the norm that software would have to be created.

Allison
Received on Sun Apr 04 1999 - 12:40:38 BST

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