New pcb design for S-100 prototype board available

[Allison]

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>Subject: Re: New pcb design for S-100 prototype board available
>   From: "Ethan Dicks" <ethan.dicks at gmail.com>
>   Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 17:38:18 -0400
>     To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
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>> Grant Stockly wrote:
>>
>> > Someone built one of my Altair replica PCBs and went to great lengths to
>> > make sure the date code on the ICs was older than 1975.  They also
>> > sourced the old brown cylindrical resistors.
>
>I've been known to do that, but for much more trivial examples - when
>I built my 1976-design Elf, I did the best I could on chips (my CPU
>and memory were of the period, but I have not yet tracked down a 74L00
>for the clock divider circuit), but I was happy to have a bin of

;) L00?  I bet I have a few that are pre ELF.

>vintage brown cylindrical resistors for the pullups.  I had to
>compromise on the regulator - the oldest one I could find in my junk
>bin was an LM340T.

I have a shopping bag of those resistor, really! the LM340 was period
and valid but, I have 7805s that are date coded 7951 (last week of '79).
Somewhere I came across a few baggies of them as they are handy.

I also have 1uS 2102s, 5101 and other old ram.

>Obviously, the computer doesn't care, but I wanted something that
>would have looked as if I had made it when I first got into computers
>as a kid.  A complete indulgence to nostalgia.

:) they dont care.  I tend to build new hardware using that old stuff
as I've had it for that reason, that is to build with.  


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>-ethan