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I don't know what happened to them, but I have a funny story about them.
Way back around 1977 I ordered a digital voltmeter kit from them.

This was a small on-IC, one board kit.  Assembly went okay,
until I looked at the IC socket, which somehow looked peculiar.
-- It was laid out mirror-image.
This was a common beginner's mistake before the days of
CAD programs.

They'd gone ahead and etched the boards with this mistake.
Luckily for them the 40-pin IC had very flexible leads,
so they were able to BEND the leads 180 degrees so you
could plug the IC in upside down!

The voltmeter worked "okay", although it was pretty silly of them to
sell a 4-digit DVM and use 5% resistors in the voltage dividers
for the 10,100, and 1000 volt ranges.  Sorta like making a ruler out of
cheese.

I hope their S-100 boards were more carefully designed!


Dan Mathias wrote in message <3934C1...@bellsouth.net>...
>Hello,
>
>Where did the company GODBOUT Electronics go? the maker of the famous
>S-100 boards and bus stuff ?
>
>Thanks
>--
>Dan Mathias
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