From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Sep 8 22:36:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA04443 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 22:36:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from u3.farm.idt.net (root@u3.farm.idt.net [169.132.8.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA04437 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 22:36:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from idt.net (ppp-26.ts-1.mlb.idt.net [169.132.71.26]) by u3.farm.idt.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA19635; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 01:35:15 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3414DEEE.B7409EA2@idt.net> Date: Tue, 09 Sep 1997 01:30:22 -0400 From: "Gary T. Corcoran" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.02b7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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