Episode

Recollections of My Life: Part 3

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Society Tech Brief By HackerNoon
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Jul 27, 2024
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1263
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Summary

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/recollections-of-my-life-part-3 . A period when I had part in a small computer businesss Check more stories related to society at: https://hackernoon.com/c/society . You can also check exclusive content about #society , #autobiography , #robert-wright , #geek-nerd , #poetry , #computer-design , #a-life-well-spent , #non-fiction , and more. This story was written by: @bobnoxious . Learn more about this writer by checking @bobnoxious's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com . It wasn’t very long before I had designed and built some protoype boards like these shown here next in the old laboratory setup. Our system boards were the same physical size as the S-100 bus cards used in the Altair, but our electrical bus structure was different. I also designed the physical bus circuit board in two styles one with I think 8 slots and another with 22 slots. The connectors were nice 100 pin card edge connectors, and we let the owner of H&L Electronics, our PCB manufacturer, Ed Lewis, use and duplicate the bus circuit board.