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The ECB bus was invented in 1977 by the german company Kontron. '''ECB''' originally stands for "Einfach Europaformat Computer Baugruppen" (Simple Europaformat Computer Modules; where "Europaformat" refers to a standarized circuit board size of 160x100mm). ECB is sometimes also referred to as "Europa Bus" or "Europe Card Bus".
Aside from Kontron, other companies like J&K, o+r, ELZET80, Conitec, E-Lab, Marflow, and miro also invented different ECB-bus variants. The CPC Schneiderware series also invented a new variant. There is also an extended 16bit variant (for 68000 processors or so).
The bus is still used in some situations (for example, as by 2010, www.reichelt.de still sells 96-pin "Euro Bus" backplane boards). Confusingly, Kontron themselves are now using the abbreviation "ECB" for PCI-bus based "Embedded Computer Boards", which have little (or nothing) to do with the original ECB bus.
