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GESPAC SA was a Swiss company who designed the G-64/96 Bus in 1979. This interface bus concept provides a simple way to interface microprocessor modules with memory and peripheral modules on a parallel bus. The G-64/96 Bus uses a simple, yet modern and powerful interface scheme which allows a higher level of functionality from the single height Eurocard form factor. The low overhead of the G-64/96 Bus interface greatly eases the design of custom boards by the User. This is why, even many years after its invention, the G-64/96 Bus is still widely used in the industry. 
 

Acknowledgments
My interest in man-machine communication was awakened while working on the PLATO project at the
University of Illinois, to which I owe many insights. The experimental systems XS-0 and XS-1 served as
test beds for evaluating the design techniques presented in this paper. I am indebted to my co-workers on
these projects, in particular to G. Beretta, H. Burkhart, P. Fink, B. Plattner, J. Stelovsky, H. Sugaya, A.
Ventura, and J.Weydert. This is a revised version of a paper presented at the 1982 International Zurich
Seminar on Digital Communications, MAN-MACHINE INTERACTION, March 9-11, 1982.

In den 1980er-Jahren veranstaltete eine Gruppe um Urs Hostettler regelmässig Spielabende, an denen unkonventionelle Gesellschaftsspiele gespielt und gelegentlich auch selber entwickelte Prototypen neuer Spiele getestet wurden. Hostettler gründete 1982 mit anderen Mitgliedern dieser Gruppe die Genossenschaft „Fata Morgana“ (Vertrieb von Spielen und Liedermacher-Platten) und später das „DracheNäscht“, einen Verkaufsladen für Spiele und Drachen in der Berner Altstadt.

 

Instead, he decided, the chips would go into a 64-kilobyte home computer to be introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas the second week of January 1982. The computer had yet to be designed, but that was easily remedied.

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