Macrotech was a late arrival on to the S-100 Computer scene. They came out
in January 1983 with a 6 layer 128K static RAM card. They lasted into the
late 80's and specilized in very high end
(most 6 layer) S-100 boards. I don't think they made more than 7
different types of boards in total -- but they were all exceptional. They were located in Canoga park and
later in
Chatsworth, CA.
Note there also was a company called Macrotech Computer Products Ltd. that
made Apple II add-on boards located in Vancouver, Canada.
Marcotech founder was Mike Pelkey, he designed the above RAM board and built
the company, the initial investor was Ken King who owned another company
building power supplies. After a few years there became a power struggle
between these two and Mike lost and left the company, though he was still a
share holder. Howard Ogle was named CEO and tried to carry on, but finally
Ken King wanted to sell it or close it - that brought Larry Page into the
picture - owner of Page Electronics, Larry was a large dealer of
Alpha Micro Systems
another S-100 bus system running the 68000 series of CPU - using AMOS (Alpha
Micro Operating System). Larry ended up buying the company.
