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Over the years, I've come across a few references to "No Name Computers", a S-100 company during the early 1980's from Huntington Beach, California. Here's some of those references. - Herb Johnson
In 2007 one of my colleagues Andrew Lynch was working on a Vector Graphic S-100 system, which I discuss in a little more detail on a Vector Graphic Web page. Here's some photos of Andrew Lynch's system, with his permission:
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In a discussion thread in 2009, someone identified the chassis (cabinet if not the S-100 bus backplane) shown here as from "NNC" based on visual comparison and the "badge" on the cabinet. NNC or "No Name Computers" was of Huntington Beach, California. Here's a Web link to a site that apparently displays the NNC chassis and SCP card set as discussed in that thread, in restoration without badge. (There's no "contact me" link at that site to contact them, but they link to my VG page.)
Tracking the company name on the Web, I see they announced a S-100 chassis as a seperate product, in the Oct 13 1980 issue of InfoWorld as a press release. NNC apparently sold CPU and FDC cards also, as based on recent sales of NNC cards of that type on eBay in the last few years.
The bartosh.us site above has dead links to other NNC discussions, but I "exhumed" one link to a 2007 cctalk discussion thread (but no actual history) of NNC by, once again, Andrew Lynch, et al.
IN the 2009 discussion linked above, some had difficulties with the idea that a S-100 "system" could have cards from one manufacturer, but a chassis from another manufacturer. They saw describing that situation as complicated. They may have the mistaken notion that S-100 systems were somehow only of one "brand", sold (maybe like automobiles?) only as complete systems. That did happen in the era. But dealers, owners, and even manufacturers also sold and used cards and chassis from many sources - period. These ain't cars where only one brand and model's parts will "fit", dude! ;) In fact, many S-100 companies began by selling add on cards or chassis for S-100 cards. - Herb Johnson
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