Hi Tom, Andrew passed on your e-mail to me since he is otherwise occupied these days.
Our group is not a commercial operation, it's just a collection of people that like collecting, studying, building S100 bus boards and systems. I'm guessing, but probably no more than about 100 people currently (worldwide). A few of us have the capability to design and fabricate new S100 boards. Generally we do (ourselves) a prototype or two first. When the board looks 'done' we put up a notice that a "Group Purchase" of the board is about to be made. This involves a volunteer that actually makes the board fabrication order (usually 10, 20 or even 30 boards). These are sent out to individuals who wish to use the board. While these bare boards are inexpensive (~$12-$16), however the batch orders do not happen often. That is why when a new batch is announce, people will order a board if the even think in the future they could use it. The problem you and some others have is that this has now been going on for a few years and the "hard core" have long gotten their system startup boards. From time to time newer versions (V2's) of the original S100 boards come out. We did a few earlier in the year, so some new people had a chance to join in. All this I know does not help you. All I can suggest is participate in the Google Groups forum, and either originate of join future board purchases when they come up. The forum is at:- https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/n8vem-s100 Most of the S100 boards and their build processes are described here: http://s100computers.com/My%20System%20Index%20Page.htm http://n8vem-sbc.pbworks.com/w/browse/#view=ViewFolder¶m=S-100%20Boards John -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 10:51 AM To: Tom Lipman Cc: [email protected] Subject: [N8VEM-S100:5295] Re: N8VEM -------------------------------------------- On Tue, 9/30/14, Tom Lipman <[email protected]> wrote: Subject: N8VEM To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2014, 1:32 PM Hi Andrew, I think I sent you an email maybe a year or more ago. I am still trying to resurrect my old Altair 8800 machine. I have seen various boards on the website: http://s100computers.com/Cards%20For%20Sale.htm I am interested in purchasing the following if they are available: Dual IDE S-100 board S-100 Bus Terminator board S-100 PIC/RTC board Please let me know if these are available, the price, and how to order. Thank you in afvance, Tom Lipman -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "N8VEM-S100" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "N8VEM-S100" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
