Here's another funny bit: To: Rick Moncrief 1 of 4 Fr: Jed Margolin Re: Status Report Dt: 15 June 1992 "... CUT ... " Texas Instruments ------

Here's another funny bit: To: Rick Moncrief 1 of 4 Fr: Jed Margolin Re: Status Report Dt: 15 June 1992 "... CUT ... " Texas Instruments ----------------- Phil Davis, the TI guy they gave me so I wouldn't bother Thom Dempsey, came to see me without an appointment. When I went out to the lobbly he explained that he had actually come to see someone else and thought he might as well see me, too. (That me me feel really special.) I asked him if the 128Kx8 VRAMs had been production released yet. He said he didn't know anything about it but he would look into it and get back to me. I asked him if they had evaluated the dead P15s yet. He said they hadn't been able to work things out with Rich Moore because of his recent trip out of the country. I explained to him that we had been using the P15 for security and no longer had a use for it since it had been ripped. He expressed surprised because he seemed to think it was such a terrific part that we were using it to run the game. I wanted to see how much he actually knew about the part so I mentioned that it was difficult to interace anything to it because the address bus does not go tristate except during Reset; unfortunately the internal Data RAM is dynamic and does not get refreshed during Reset. I had, of course, developed several very successful techniques for interfacing to it. He said he didn't know anything about it but would look into it and get back to me. I informed him that I hadn't asked him a question, that instead, I had told him something. This guy doesn't know anything and he doesn't listen. He is an idiot.