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Some entrepreneurs, particularly in the San Francisco Bay area, saw opportunities to build add-on devices, or peripherals, for the Altair; others decided to design competitive hardware products. Because different machines might use different data paths, or buses, peripherals built for one computer might not work with another computer. This led the emerging industry to petition the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers to select a standard bus. The resulting standard, the S-100 bus, was open for all to use and became ubiquitous among early personal computers. Standardizing on a common bus helped to expand the market for early peripheral manufacturers, ...(100 of 31391 words)