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From: spl@duck.ncsc.org (Steve Lamont)
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Subject: S100 boxes (was Re: Why IBM went for the 8088 -- The Untold Story)
Keywords: S100, Parallel Ports
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Date: 25 May 90 14:57:28 GMT
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In article <1990May25.130311.13304@ecn.purdue.edu> hankd@ee.ecn.purdue.edu (Hank Dietz) writes:
>It was mostly the later S100 machines (e.g., 16-bit) that made the IEEE
>standard necessary.  Ah...  the good old days when machines were simple.

Yeah.  Them was the days... 

I debugged my IMSAI 8080 hardware, including some hand crafted circuitry, with
a Simpson 260 VOM!  Hate to have to do that on our Cray :-).

							spl (the p stands for
							probes at the ready!)
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