ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

S-100 bus

Okay kiddo, let's learn about the S-100 bus!

The S-100 bus is like a big road that connects different parts of a computer. Imagine you have a school and you need to send students to different classrooms. You'd need a road to connect those classrooms, right? Similarly, a computer needs roads to connect different parts of it to each other. The S-100 bus is one such road.

It was invented a long time ago in the 1970s. It looks like a bunch of little holes and metal lines on a computer board. Think of it like a puzzle that connects all the different parts of a computer.

The S-100 bus is really special because it allowed people to build their own computers from scratch. People could buy different parts and connect them using the S-100 bus. This was pretty cool because before this, you needed to buy a whole computer from scratch, and you couldn't change anything or add anything to it.

So, the S-100 bus allowed people to be creative and make their own custom computers, kind of like building with Legos. It's not used as much today because technology has advanced, but it's still really important because it paved the way for people to tinker with computers and make them better.