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I still cannot understand why the #S100 bus based computers were not a great success in the early 1980s.

It was used for the first hobbyist #Altair computers as well as #Z80 CPU based systems.

The extensibility through standardized components was one of the key features. There were backplanes, cases and exchangeable 3rd party components available.

But people preferred proprietary stuff like #Apple II and #Commodore pet and later #VC20 and #C64.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-100_bu

Funkende Computer

"Wer kennt das nicht: Man möchte verschiedenen Hobbys – in der eigentlich zu knapp bemessenen Freizeit – am liebsten immer gleichzeitig nachgehen. Beschäftigt man sich mit einer Sache, bleibt keine Zeit mehr für anderes, was man auch gern tut. Nicht so bei Helmut Isenberg; er hat seine zwei Lieblingsbeschäftigungen – Amateurfunk und Programmieren – in nahezu idealer Weise miteinander verknüpft."
#retrocomputing #retro #vc20 #64er
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