New pcb design for S-100 prototype board available

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Jun 4, 2007, at 3:28 AM, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
>>>   Also true.  I'd bet, however, that the number of S-100 products is 
>>> twice that of Multibus and STD bus combined, even when taking into 
>>> account stuff like Multibus-based Cisco routers and related stuff.  I 
>>> wonder why that is...is it just a matter of having been developed 
>>> sooner?
>>
>> I don't have any experience from which to draw when trying to come up 
>> with a number for the amount of S-100 product out there, but I can say 
>> without hesitation that there is a metric buttload of STD-bus stuff 
>> out there, but only in specific arenas.  You can get an STD-bus board 
>> (or boardset) to do pretty much anything you can think of in 
>> industrial control/manufacturing robotics.  It's a very popular bus in 
>> that arena.
> 
>   Yes I've heard that, and it's no coincidence that the three or four 
> STD-bus cards that I've seen in my life happened to be motor 
> controllers. :-)
> 
>   I really like the form factor of those cards...I wish they were easier 
> to come by; I'd love to build up a little STD-bus "hack machine" around 
> a Z80 or 6809.

It would probably be easiest to build a "hack machine" around the 6502. 
  There are a significant number of 6502-based CPU boards for talking to 
said motor controllers over the STD-bus.  I've Z80-based ones too, but 
from what I've seen the 6502 ones are more common.

Peace...  Sridhar