You are correct, Jim, of course. But don't tell the Apple guys! On a different topic, I am sure I am not the only one who is very glad you were able to attend this year. The efforts you go to for the hobby make a big impact. I know you made a huge effort to drive so far and I want you to know it was appreciated! It was great speaking with you, and I am sure I meant to buy something so I'll have to get back to you on that. :-) Thanks, Chris On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 7:26 PM RETRO Innovations via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On 4/26/2022 6:17 PM, Chris Fala via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Now to just find a few Commodore computers that actually work (I am not serious, but Tony Bogan would have made the joke if I didn't beat him to the punch!).
Oh, I don't know, feel free to be serious there. Even though I should not have been surprised, I was taken aback when Bil referenced a number of times that once they got yields of IC wafers up enough to have MTBF on the ICs just past the warrantee period, more process improvement was strenuously frowned upon.
Given that, either the engineers secretly worked to improve MTBF on the process, or the platform got very lucky.
Still, 40 years for an NMOS IC is asking a lot.
Jim
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