Video Genie
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Video Genie is a discontinued series of computers produced by Hong Kong–based manufacturer EACA during the early 1980s. Computers from the Video Genie line are mostly compatible with the Tandy TRS-80
The first version of the Video Genie System, including the right-hand Shift key that was replaced in later versions.
Video Genie - poster for first version.
PMC-80, a rebadged Video Genie distributed in North America by Personal Microcomputers, Inc.
S-100 bus
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The S-100 bus or Altair bus, later standardized as IEEE 696-1983, is an early computer bus designed in 1974 as a part of the Altair 8800. The S-100 bus was the first industry-standard expansion bus fo
Harry Garland and Roger Melen, co-founders of Cromemco, holding an S-100 backplane (1981)
The Cromemco XXU processor board, introduced in 1986. At 16.7 MHz, it is the fastest CPU ever developed for the S-100 bus. It uses a Motorola 68020 processor with 68881 co-processor and 16 Kbytes of high-speed cache memory. This CPU is used in the Cromemco CS-250 computer, widely deployed by the U.S. Air Force.
Racks of Cromemco S-100 Systems at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in 1984