The fellow who gave them to me said that he originally bought them from
    a person named "Bill Godbout" (I am not sure if this was an actual
    person, or the name of a company) who got them surplus from somewhere.

Heh.  Both.  Bill Godbout ran "Godbout electronics", an early heavy player
in the S-100 CPM computer world.  Bought a bunch of stuff from him a long
time ago, and never quite got it working :-( (not his fault...)  I wonder
if my S100 "system" is still sitting in storage over at Stanford somewhere?

A web search turns up lots of early history.  Apparently Godbout become
CompuPro, and did generic surplus before focusing on computers...

BillW

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