D-ROGERS@EDWARDS-2060.ARPA (09/17/87)
My DECsystem 2060 couldn't make sense of the mailer address, that is why i'm not making this a personal reply. >Message-Id: <8709161609.AA05700@lll-es-s05.ARPA> >Date: Wed Sep 16 09:09:49 1987 >From: hanscom@lll-es-s05 (Roger Hanscom 423-0441) >Subject: S-100 Boards >I probably shouldn't consider myself "the average hobbyist", but $500 is >an EXCEPTIONAL amount to pay for an S-100 card. ... >BTW, I believe that this is where most vendors go wrong. If it's good, >AND AFFORDABLE, they can sell all they want to. If one looks at the >harware success stories of the last ten or fifteen years, this is the >common pattern. When a 68000-based computer falls into this category, >I'll be first in line. You might want to check out the 68K project in the current Radio Electronics Magazine. $200 for "usable" 8Mhz system kit; $500 with floppy subsys, 1Mb memory, SK/DOS, etc. Has Itty Bitty Machine PC bus interface to use clone controllers for Hard Disk, extra i/o ports (board design includes 2 serial, 1 parallel), bit-map video, etc. I'm ordering one. [dale] standard disclaimers apply. "...of course my opinion differs from 'most everyone else! If it were the same, i'd probably have to change it, lest i remain in error." -------