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Companies for which I have
insufficient information to add a section currently.
Please help if you have manuals or pictures.
Artec Electronics.They were located in San
Carlos, CA. They made a 32K static RAM board as well as some
prototype boards. See for example Interface Age May 1978, Vol 3, #5,
p44
Canada Systems Inc. They were located in La Canada,
CA. They made a Clock/Time board and a motor controller board.
See for example Interface Age May 1978, Vol 3,
#5, p52
Chrislin Industries. They were located in Westlake
Village, CA. In early 1980's they made a high density (64K) dynamic
RAM board.
Digital Graphics Systems.
They were located in Palo Alto, CA. They made high resolution
graphic display and image capture
S-100 boards.
For example see Microsystems 1984, Vol 4, #10, p93.
International Micro Machines or IMM. They were
locate in Canoga Park CA. They advertised a series of static memory
boards in 1980. See Microsystems Vol 1,#6 p27.
SPC Technologies Inc. They were located in
Arlington VA. They made an S-100 9-track Tape drive controller and
a Floating Point Math board. See Microsystems Vol 3, #2, p 53.
D&W Digital. They were
located in Los Altos CA. They made an IEEE-488 interface board
similar to the Pickles & Trout one.
Appeared in 1982. See Microsystems Vol
3,#4,p90.
PCE Systems. They were locate in Carmichael CA.
They made a S-100 256K dynamic RAM board and a 14" Winchester drive
controller. They came out in 1981. See Microsystems Vol 2, #6, p15.
Illuminated Technology Inc. They were located in
Oklahoma City OK. They had a great looking IEEE-696 compatible video
board with resolutions up to 1024X1024X8 colors. They appeared in
1984 & 1985. See Microsystems Vol 5, #4, p41.
MicroDASys. They were located in Los Angeles CA.
They sold an interesting looking 8 port parallel, 2Serial port S-100
board. The board could be memory or IO mapped. They appeared in1980.
See Microcomputing Feb 1980 p13.
Intelligent Computer Designs Corp. They were
located in Laguna Hills CA. They made master/slave S100 SBC's.
Appeared in1985. They used the HD64180 chip instead of a Z80.
Similar setup's to TeleTek or ADC's. See MSJ Vol , #5, p58.
Micro Design Associates. They were located in
Columbia MO. They briefly came out with a very flexible S-100 FDC
in 1984. See MSJ Vol 5, #4, p67.
Performics Inc. They were located in
Kingston & Nashua NH. They had a number
of interesting S-100 boards around 1984. These included a 256K
static RAM board, a FDC board, a 1M Dynamic RAM board an 8086 and
80286 CPU board. See for example Microsystems 1984, Vol5, #9, p
104.
Memory Merchant. They were located in San Leandro,
CA. They made 16K (using 2114's) and 64K (using 6516's) Static RAM
boards, a Z80 board and possibly others. See for example
Microsystems Feb 1983, Vol 4, #2, p38.
Octagon. They were located in San Jose, CA. They
appeared in the mid 80's with complete 8 &16 bit S-100 bus systems
in their own custom box. They had an NSC-800 (Z80 compatible)/8088
dual CPU board, a 512K dynamic RAM board and a 256K static RAM
board. They also had a FCD and HDC board. See Microsystems 1984, Vol
5, #1, p130
Sierra Data Sciences. They were located in Fresno,
CA. They appeared in the early 80's. They had a Z80 SBC master and
slave board and a 4 port serial board. See Microsystems 1982, Vol 3,
#4, p1. For a history of SDS
Earth Computers. They were located in Fountain
Valley, CA. They came late into the game but had some good SBC
boards. For example a "Turbomaster 8" with a Z80H at 8MHZ,
FDC,DHC,256K RAM etc. on one board. See S-100 journal, Spring 1986,
Vol1, #3 p9. See here for more information about teh company.
SKI Elecronics. They were located in San Jose CA.
They made a 8088 CPU board that was IEEE-696 compatable. All I have
so far is an advertisement.
Companies/Boards for which I have manuals but no pictures.
Please help if you have a picture.
