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Re:Bill Godbout, a legend in the S-100 community, died in th... by mindcrime on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @06:04PM (#18445740)
Sad news indeed. I've been doing a lot of "retro computing" stuff lately, including starting a project to build a Z80 based machine. And one of the things I keep coming across references to is the S-100 bus. It seems to have been a key component of a lot of the earlier PC's.

Anyway, R.I.P. Mr. Godbout. And here's hoping we don't lose anyone else to the wildfires.

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Re:Bill Godbout, a legend in the S-100 community, died in th... by mschaef on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @07:28PM (#18446227)
> I keep coming across references to is the S-100 bus.

The S-100 bus originated in the Altair 8800, essentially as a direct copy of the 8080 (CPU) bus. From there, it took on a life of it's own, very much like the IBM PC's ISA bus did a few years later... there were companies building S-100 expansion boards for existing computers, new computer backplanes built around S-100, faster CPU's, etc. (IIRC, there were CPU's at least as fast as a Motorola 68020... so quite away from it's more humble 8080 origins.)

S-100 was very important for it's time...

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Re:Bill Godbout, a legend in the S-100 community, died in th... by Gibbon1 on Monday November 19, 2018 @04:11PM (#18489789)
> S-100 was very important for it's time...

Lot of people doing serious software development at the time were either using minicomputers or S-100 systems.

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Re:Bill Godbout, a legend in the S-100 community, died in th... by walshemj on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @06:13PM (#18445788)
A S100 based system from chromenco was the built to the hilt mac pro in todays terms back then pre IBM pc.
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Re:Bill Godbout, a legend in the S-100 community, died in th... by HankB99 on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @07:54PM (#18446396)
Definitely. I started with a Heathkit H-8 because I could not afford an S-100 based system. I would have very much liked an IMSAI-8080 with the paddles for address and data to manually load RAM data.
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