Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 15:06:55 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Gary T. Corcoran" <garycorc@idt.net> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bill Godbout (was: lousy disk perf. under cpu load (was IDE vs SCSI)) Message-ID: <19970909150655.60403@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3414DEEE.B7409EA2@idt.net>; from Gary T. Corcoran on Tue, Sep 09, 1997 at 01:30:22AM -0400 References: <19970909082656.57842@lemis.com> <XFMail.970908165203.Shimon@i-Connect.Net> <19970909095701.10527@lemis.com> <199709090353.VAA22280@obie.softweyr.ml.org> <19970909132735.60877@lemis.com> <3414DEEE.B7409EA2@idt.net>
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On Tue, Sep 09, 1997 at 01:30:22AM -0400, Gary T. Corcoran wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: > >> Oh, we're me-tooing, are we? I just found my first computer out in >> the shed while I was looking for something useful. 20 years and a >> couple of months old, Z-80 with 2 2112 static RAM chips. Remember >> them? 4x256 bits. The whole machine had 256 bytes, so I wire-wrapped >> a 4K board, but could only afford 8 2102s. Then I moved to S-100, >> because Bill Godbout was offering 8 K memory boards at prices I could >> only dream about in Germany. > > Say, whatever happened to Godbout - the company and/or Bill? > After the early 80's I never heard of/about him again... > Any of you Bay Area folks know? I saw him on a TV show in the early 90s. Greg
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