On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Allison J Parent wrote:
> <The issue of "integral part" is different. I didn't mean that the S-100
> <machines had no video capability, I mean that it wasn't an integral part o
> <the system because you had to install it. A manufacturer (like SOL? I
> <think) might install the video for you and sell the result as a package --
> <that's an interesting borderline case. But S-100 is clearly different fro
>
> Except that the SOL was sold with a VDM1 as part of the system unless you
> bought it bare deliberatly (like you could a PC).
Ummm... must beg to differ here. While the SOL uses the VDM-1 circuitry,
it is an integral part of the main board rather than an S-100 add-on, and
I do not recall any variant offered that would have been minus the video
system.
Same with the Cassette I/O circuitry which mirrored the S-100 CUTS board
from P.T.
-jim
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