[vcf-midatlantic] Add-on card edge fingers for mock S-100 boards
Herb Johnson
hjohnson at retrotechnology.info
Thu Jan 13 18:01:29 UTC 2022
> Jonathan Chapman >
> retrobrewcomputers.org
>
> Their boards are high-quality modern production with proper hard gold edge plating ...
It wasn't clear if they (Goodman) is offering what they call
"unbuffered" or "plain" S-100 prototype boards. The buffered board is
apparently expected to be memory or I/O, not a processor board or
bus-controlling board such as a new-designed 8080 board as Joe Giliberti
may be considering. And without detailing the differences, there's
different flavors of S-100 bus; Joe may desire the earliest kind for
IMSAI/MITS operation.
Prices at "auction" for old-stock S-100 prototype boards with no
layouts, as old stock commercial products, seem to be in the $25-$50
range plus shipping. The newly produced bare boards at retrobrew, seem
to be in that range also. The cheapest possible least-desired old S-100
cards touch that range also, as I've observed. Thus I'd call that range
"the bottom" for S-100 boards of any sort.
And it's hard to find S-100 connectors below $10 a pop, for that matter,
they are often more. It's not appreciated, that S-100 PC mount
connectors came in two pin-widths between the two rows. Different brands
of backplanes used one or the other. It's a gotcha to buy the wrong
width connectors for a particular unpopulated backplane.
So much for "standard" S-100. ;)
Regards, Herb Johnson
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