Hacking the S-100 Bus

Posted by grunthos on Saturday June 11, 2022 @05:59AM
from the glitchwrks.com dept.

https://www.glitchwrks.com/s100.html

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Re:Hacking the S-100 Bus by nebopolis on Sunday June 12, 2022 @01:40AM (#31711765)

One of my favorite programming ballads is Frank Hayes S-100: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow78cUDdTOg

To tell the truth the source of all our troubles seems to be

A committee on computers of the I of triple E

They settled on a standard spec 696 by name

Now everything is standardized but nothing works the same

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Re:Hacking the S-100 Bus by ghaff on Sunday June 12, 2022 @10:13AM (#31714634)

Yeah. It was on a record called The World's Funniest Computer Songs. Some others are pretty good too. Seems to be on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAuyUHpLzsI

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Re:Hacking the S-100 Bus by garyrob on Sunday June 12, 2022 @09:25AM (#31714315)

I had a Gifford S-100 machine. I bought a 40MB hard drive for it for $4K! (Closer to $12K if you count inflation.) All the software I was developing "sat in a little corner" of it, as I put it at the time; I was so happy about how huge it was. Those were the days!

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