John,

Please correct me if I'm off track here, but didn't the folks at Heath come up with the S-100 bus for their Heathkit machines?

>I beg to differ, Tom.
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>The S-100 was a bus architecture, not a computer itself. IMSAI's computer was simply known as the 8080. MITS' computer was the Altair 8800.
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>Many other computer manufacturers adopted the S-100 bus and I'd hazard an educated guess that most CP/M and TurboDOS systems ran on S-100 bug computers.
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>>Yes - and that became the S-100. My confusion was that Altair was in New Mexico - I read an article that said Hayward, CA, where we lived at one time. IMSAI (the S-100 I owned) was in San Leandro, near Hayward. They will have to make some corrections at the San Jose Technical Museum as to the history of all this. :)
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