[sumtechguy]

Heh, not sure why but it makes me wonder if you could 'Ship of Theseus' something like that into a modern day desktop. By going thru the different eras of DIY compute.

[buescher]

At some point you have to go from S-100 to original “8-bit” ISA. There might have been a combo backplane in period.

[sumtechguy]

Yeah I was thinking that. Also at some point you will be switching motherboards every other cpu update just due to the socket changes between generations.

[scruss]

S-100 went as far as 68020 and Unix clones, but you'd be at a dead end there