I think a good class on S100 and S50s would be a great idea if someone can do them
I have read about people getting their hands on a machine and not knowing how to interface or troubleshoot it. I myself have an IMSAI and a Wameco and I don't know how to make them work.
There was a great Atari class this year and a good class on getting started and troubleshooting may be of interest.
Starting from "I bought this Altair on eBay!" would be a week-long course, assuming the individual(s) taking it had enough background for the material in the first place! There's a lot involved in getting them fully operational and *stable* and having an unstable machine is a nightmare for someone who's just getting started on S-100.
and S50s
Assuming you mean SS-50, these things aren't really related, the (usually) completely different processor architecture changes a lot of things. Thanks, Jonathan