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S-100 Boards For Sale

There is now a growing network of S-100 computer collectors. If you have a card or computer  for sale please let me know I will add it to a list on this page (see below) for free. Please include a description of the card, asking price, phone number if required and  an e-mail address. (Only cards with a valid e-mail address will be accepted).

S100Computers & N8VEM Boards Status and Order List
As you can see in other sections of this site Andrew Lynch and I have and will continue to make custom S-100 boards for our own use.  A lot of work goes into designing and manufacturing these boards. Typically they start off as a point to point wire (or wire wrapped) soldered prototype board. A long process at arriving at an efficient schematic is carried out.  A first prototype board is manufactured. The process may have to be repeated before a final commercial quality board is made. 

Realizing a number of others may want to use these boards we have opened the final "commercial" board to others that may wish to obtain them. These are high commercial quality but bare S-100 boards. You have to add your own IC sockets chips etc. A schematic and assembly instructions is provided for each board however on this web site.  

Please remember however this is NOT a commercial venture. The boards will be ordered in batches and little "hand holding" will be provided in their building. That said the good news is that we can usually provide the boards cheaply (~$20-40 each) payable via PayPal when we get them from the manufacture.

This will be a continuously ongoing process. Andrew and I  will try and keep status/orders up to date.  If you would like a board please let Andrew (
lynchaj@yahoo.com) or me (monahan@vitasoft.org) know.  Also please review this list from time to time.  If you have ordered a board and you do not see your name below please let us know.

  AVAILABLE AVAILABLE AVAILABLE AVAILABLE AVAILABLE AVAILABLE AVAILABLE   IN WORK IN WORK IN WORK IN WORK IN WORK IN WORK
N8VEM S-100 Waiting List Regular Buffered     ASCII   System         Bus   Console
Name Protoboard Protoboard Backplane IDE Keyboard 4MB SRAM Monitor   EPROM PIC/RTC Z80 CPU Extender IO IO
Al W                   1        
Bill     1                 1    
Bob A     1                      
Brian M   1 1 1 1 1 1   1 1 1 1 1  
Charles D                            
Dan R     1     1     1 1 1      
Don C   1 1       1   1     1    
Douglas W. G       1               2    
Emil S     2           1 1 1   1  
Fabien N     1                      
Geoff H                       2    
Ian D 1   2   3   2   2 2 2 2    
Jack R   2     2             1    
Jerry B         1   1   1          
Jim P 1 1 2 2 2 1                
John C                       1    
John M   2                        
John M         2       4          
John S                            
Ken H                 1   1      
Ken K         1                  
Ken R           1         1   1  
Kipp Y     1           1 1   1 1  
Lawrence L                   1 1      
Leon B     1           1 1 1 1 1  
Malcolm MacL     1   1   1              
Matt T     3   1 2     2 2 1 2 3  
Mike P       1                    
Mike S             1              
Neil B                            
Nick K         1                  
Oscar V                            
Pete F                            
Pete P     1     2     1 1 1 1 1  
Pontus O                            
Rich C   1                        
Rich C   1     1                  
Richard T
Ron B                            
Robert G         1                  
Roger H           2                
Steven H                       1    
Steven J   2 1                      
Steven S     2   2       2 2 2 2    
William McK                            
Total 2 11 22 5 19 10 7   19 14 13 19 9 0

Note "IN WORK", Signify boards that are still in the prototype stage and are not yet ready for prime time.


S-100 Buffered Prototype Board
Andrew Lynch and I made a new S-100 Prototype Board that is designed to help take away the initial drudgery of building S-100 prototype boards.  We have laid out the board so all the address and data lines are buffered through 74LS245's or 74LS244's. Most of the common S-100 bus control and status signals are also buffered.  So the user can right away get down to building useful circuits without the bus connection/IC overhead.  Also the board is arranged so a daughter piggyback (no S-100) board can be attached via a series of connectors. This way you can have cheap simple test boards made before you "burn" your own real (more expensive) S-100 board.  If you have a real interest in a board(s) let us know.  A schematic which can be seen here is supplied.  Note these are bare boards. You add chips and other components yourself. There is a wait list for additional boards if and when demand warrants. 

S100 Prototyppe Board

A second improved version of this board has been made. See here for more information. Here is a picture of that board:-
 
Prototype Board V2


 
Basic S-100 Prototype Board
This a basic S-100 prototyping board (no buffers etc.) has a 9"x4.5" area of PTH for wire wrap or point to point wiring of prototypes.  All pins are exported and includes circuitry for three voltage regulators, +5V, +12V, and -12V.  The SCRs are optional and can be modified by the builder as desired.  The S-100 prototyping boards are $25 each plus $3 shipping in the US.  These S-100 prototype board PCBs are currently all sold and in the hands of builders being tested and used.  
 
 First Prototype S-100 Board
 

S-100 Motherboard

The S-100 backplane is a 6 slot active terminated motherboard for building and/or repairing small S-100 systems.  It is primarily intended for bench-top work to repair and/or build boards without risking valuable legacy S-100 chassis.  The builder supplies their own power supplies, connectors, and other components.  There are links and information available on how to obtain components as needed on the N8VEM wiki.  The S-100 prototyping boards are $32 each plus $3 shipping in the US.  The S-100 backplane PCBs are currently all sold and in the hands of builders being tested and used. There is a wait list for additional boards if and when demand warrants.
 

S100 Motherboard 


S-100 IDE Board
Andrew Lynch and I have completed an S-100 IDE Board that is designed to interface the S-100 bus with IDE drives and Compact Flash memory cards. Please see here for more information about this card. The second batch of boards have been used up by S-100 users. There is a wait list for additional boards if and when demand warrants.
 
IDE-2 Board

 

S-100 PC Keyboard Adaptor  Board
This board allows you to utilize a standard modern day PC keyboard as an ASCII keyboard for S-100 bus systems. Please see here for more information about this card. A second batch of boards have been used up by S-100 users. There is a wait list for additional boards if and when demand warrants.

Keyboard Adaptor


4 MB S-100 Static RAM  Board
Andrew Lynch and I have also just completed a 4 MB S-100 Static RAM Board that is designed to allow you to utilize any speed CPU (8 or 16 bit) in the S100 bus up to its maximum capacity of 16 MB. A batch of boards have been already been used up by S-100 users. There is a wait list for additional boards if and when demand warrants.

4MG Static RAM

S-100 System Monitor Board
This is a S-100 Board that allows you to review important S-100 bus signals and control the Master CPU running the bus. Information about this board can be seen here.

S-100 SMB Board
The board comes as a main S-100 board and one of three different ttypes of display boards. You cut and add the type of display board you need.

Future Boards...
We have a growing list of S-100 boards planned.  These include a really fast Z80 (8 MHz+), a Multifunctional serial IO board (serial, USB, Speech, etc.), a Clock/Calendar and Interrupt Controller board.  Later 8086, 80286 and 80386 boards as well as very powerful/flexible multi disk format FDC board, Video boards etc.  So stay tuned for progress.  Please use our forum site for requests, suggestions help etc.



BOARDS FOR SALE BY OTHER S-100 USERS
These are boards that other S-100 users have asked me to display. If interested please contact the user directly.
If you would like to advertise (for free) any S-100 boards you have pease let me know.


Intersystem's S-100 Boards For Sale
Sound Farm Electronics has some new old stock S-100 boards for sale. These were manufactured by Intersystem's between 1977 and 1983. They are available as kits or assembled and tested (see below). All are from new old stock including the parts.

IA Boards for sale

 
Kits include all active and passive components, dual wipe sockets, and a CD with the manual in PDF format. For information on each board's use please look at the  on this website Intersystem's section.  The boards are: 
  
IA 1010 Z80 CPU rev. 2.0 $80 kit $120 assembled
16/64 EPROM Board $65 kit $100 assembled
256k DRAM w/o RAM chips* $70 kit  
256k DRAM with RAM chips $100 kit $150 assembled
Clock/Calendar/bus terminator $80 kit $140 assembled
Video Display Board $75 $100 assembled

If you would like to order one or more of these, please send an email to:- Soundfarm@mail.com

Indicate the board you would like, how many plus your zip code/address.
International orders are welcome.  We will send you a total including the shipping cost.
You can then pay via PayPal, money order, or check. 

*
The 256k DRAM board uses 64k RAM chips such as MC6665's, 4164,etc. Some early PCs and other computers used these chips and may be able to be given a second life in S-100 service.

 


 

This page was last modified on 08/22/2010