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Date:      Tue, 09 Sep 1997 01:30:22 -0400
From:      "Gary T. Corcoran" <garycorc@idt.net>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Bill Godbout (was: lousy disk perf. under cpu load (was IDE vs SCSI))
Message-ID:  <3414DEEE.B7409EA2@idt.net>
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>

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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?

Gary



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