From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Sep 8 22:37:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA04479 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 22:37:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA04473 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 22:37:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id PAA07312; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 15:06:56 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19970909150655.60403@lemis.com> Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 15:06:55 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Gary T. Corcoran" Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bill Godbout (was: lousy disk perf. under cpu load (was IDE vs SCSI)) References: <19970909082656.57842@lemis.com> <19970909095701.10527@lemis.com> <199709090353.VAA22280@obie.softweyr.ml.org> <19970909132735.60877@lemis.com> <3414DEEE.B7409EA2@idt.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <3414DEEE.B7409EA2@idt.net>; from Gary T. Corcoran on Tue, Sep 09, 1997 at 01:30:22AM -0400 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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