Bill Degnan suggested ways to pay homage to Bob Applegate. One thing mentioned was a VCF-East exhibit. That seems to me to be a long way off, other things can be done sooner. Bob's work included producing new SS-50 products and also KIM accessories and a half-sized KIM. But I looked at my 2023 VCF-East photos, and I didn't notice or recall any SS-50 exhibits. Bob of course exhibited Corsham products a few years prior. So, why not encourage a few owners of Corsham products, to exhibit next April at VCF-East, their SS-50 systems, original era and Corsham-era? It need not be a large exhibit, these are not large systems. A few owners could run a table and possibly accept other owner's equipment for exhibit. The VCFed warehouse has a few SWTPC, Gimix and other systems (maybe to be restored at repair events?) The SS-50 6800 architecture created by SWTPC in the mid-1970's was well respected, not hard to build, and performed comparably to 8080 systems of the era. Other companies produced SS-50 products; in time some moved into other bus architectures that supported Motorola processors. FLEX OS was comparable to CP/M. And that base of software and hardware led to 6809 and 68000 SS-50 systems into the early 1990's. They found use as business and industrial systems and personal systems, again as did other 8 and 16-bit microcomputer architectures. As IBM PC's and compatibles began to dominate personal and business computing, and home-video-gaming computers became less expensive and consumer items; the class of boxey-bussed-board systems (SS-50, S-100, etc.) became out of favor in that space. Bob revived production of SS-50 boards decades later, I don't know the details. That history suggests an exhibit theme. I don't have much SS-50 myself but I know others do. And I've not described other products of Bob's, others who know can work those into a narrative and an exhibit. regards, Herb Johnson -- Herbert R. Johnson, New Jersey USA https://www.retrotechnology.com OR .net preserve, recover, restore 1970's computing email: hjohnson AT retrotechnology DOT com or try later herbjohnson AT comcast DOT net