From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Sep 9 13:50:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA04797 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 13:50:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from oldyeller.comtest.com (comtest.hits.net [206.127.244.117] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA04769 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 13:50:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from graphics.comtest.com (graphics.comtest.com [206.127.245.194]) by oldyeller.comtest.com (8.8.5/8.8.3) with SMTP id KAA07005; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 10:39:48 -1000 (HST) Message-Id: <199709092039.KAA07005@oldyeller.comtest.com> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Randal S. Masutani" Organization: ComTest Technologies, Inc. To: Greg Lehey Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 10:52:18 -1000 Subject: Re: Bill Godbout (was: lousy disk perf. under cpu load (was IDE Reply-to: randal@comtest.com CC: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Priority: normal In-reply-to: <19970909150655.60403@lemis.com> References: <3414DEEE.B7409EA2@idt.net>; from Gary T. Corcoran on Tue, Sep 09, 1997 at 01:30:22AM -0400 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.53/R1) 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 Bill frequents Hawaii a lot on the island of Maui. He visits with a friend of mine. He changed his company from Godbout Electronics to CompuPro in the early 80's and then to Viasyn in the late 80's. Which I think finally closed for business in the early 90's. I still have one of his CompuPro CPM system with a dual 8085/8088 processors and 8 inch floppies. Randal **************************** ComTest Technologies, Inc. 3049 Ualena St., Suite 1005 Honolulu, Hawaii 96819 ****************************