[Elecraft] Computers in the Stone Age

[Kevin Cozens]

I was off by a year. It was the January 1975 issue of PE that had the Altair 
8800 on the cover.

On 14-05-28 09:32 PM, Bill Blomgren (kk4qdz) wrote:
> The 6800 systems did not use the s-100 bus... the s-100 was a very poorly
> designed bus that was wrapped around the 8080 chip, and not general purpose
> enough.. Lordy how things have changed since then.

There was also a 6809 based version of their product for a while.

IEEE got involved with the S-100 bus and came up with an enhanced spec for 
the S-100 that was released as IEEE-696 (if memory serves). I have a copy of 
the IEEE doc somewhere.

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