There is a neat story told by Bil Herd about the C128's VDC video chip: https://youtu.be/wzMsgnnDIRE?t=597 https://youtu.be/wzMsgnnDIRE?t=597 > It turns out

There is a neat story told by Bil Herd about the C128's VDC video chip: https://youtu.be/wzMsgnnDIRE?t=597 https://youtu.be/wzMsgnnDIRE?t=597 > It turns out it didn't have an interrupt when you're done. And when I > figured out, well, the 6845 has got an interrupt, why don't you? I asked > the designer, he said "Well, you can simply look at a register" [...] From > then on, we had this running joke where nobody would wait for the phone to > ring, we just all kept checking our phones whenever this guy was around [...]