Types of S100 Bus Users
Collectors.
These are
people that just want to have a nice computer museum of their own to feel proud
that they grew up with the technology and have both the space and money to show it off to their friends and family. They
frequent places like eBay to obtain S100 boards. Unfortunately because of
our age S100 boards are now becoming fairly common. Nevertheless a
complete working Altair, IMSAI, Compupro or Cromemco S100 bus system can reach
several thousands dollars.
The Hardware People
These are people that just like fixing up old stuff ... the nostalgia of the
days when radios, stereos, TVs and computers were repaired in a little
neighborhood fix-it shop, and they enjoy making the old hardware work again
while also building new boards for the fun of board assembly etc. This is
the main focus of this site. We utilize the IEEE-696 S100 bus to design
and use new board hardware. We
have so far, (just for CPU boards alone), new boards for the
Z80,
8080,
6502,
8088,
8086,
80286,
80386,
80486,
68000,
68030
and
PDP11,
Edison,
Raspberry
Pi and
Arduino/Atmega
CPUs.
The Software People
These are people that have been creating the SIMs and emulators that run on PC's
etc. but emulate S100 bus hardware. They are also endless descriptions of
CPM BIOS'es with software available today for almost every S100 bus soft or hard
disk controller. Many also take pride in booting up CPM and displaying a
directory etc. However few today ever use these systems to write new
software. If done at all it is done on a PC emulator.
This page was last modified on
10/16/2023