some finds...

From: Ethan Dicks <erd_at_infinet.com>
Date: Tue Feb 9 15:01:47 1999

> That's the VDC :-) The designer brightly explained to Bil Herd that you didn't
> need the chip to send an IRQ when the screen was done drawing because you
> could just poll it over and over. Even my computer-illiterate mother laughed
> her head off when I told her about the Commodore engineers in the bar and
> "ringer-less telephones" (just pick it up over and over and over ...).

Exactly. I'd spaced out on some of those details.

> ::This and more is detailed on Dave Haynie's Deathbed Vigil video tape. A
> ::must-see.
>
> Anywhere I can get it from? Dave was indispensible for the 7501/Plus4 sections
> of Secret Weapons of Commodore.

I bought my copy from Dale Larson. I'm pretty sure it's an out of stock item.

-ethan
Received on Tue Feb 09 1999 - 15:01:47 GMT