Whether or not anyone wire-wrapped a board (pretty sure no one did), we didn't write a single line of code for the National parts. There were a number of visits

Whether or not anyone wire-wrapped a board (pretty sure no one did), we didn't write a single line of code for the National parts. There were a number of visits by National sales reps and they dropped a lot of documentation on us, though. We were generally doubtful that the chip would be fast enough, and needed to make a processor decision very quickly; in late July 1984 we were talking about it, and I don't recall anything past August or so. By October the software folks were mostly in Monterey with a bunch of 68K-based systems. Another factor in the 68K's favor was that it was pretty easy to buy off-the-shelf 68K-based workstations (e.g., Motorola VME-10, the Apple Lisa), which let us do 4-5 months of software development while waiting for the actual ST hardware.