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don-bright

Im just going to make sure at least one post here mentions S-100 bus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_8800

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_Graphic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Star_Horizon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMSAI_8080

Thanks for coming to my ted talk

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I made a living porting Unix to new hardware in the mid to late 80s so all the busses of the day came across my desk, and designed graphics card silicon in the 90s

S-100 was very much history by the time the boxes in the article were designed (5-10 years before) VME and Multibus were the first generation workstation busses, PCs had ISA->EISA, Macs had NuBus/NuBus90 - all of them converged on PCI once chips with enough pins were packaged cheaply enough (plastic rather than ceramic - 200+ pins)

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