some finds...

::The internals of one of the C-128 chips led to the stories at Commodore of ::employees who would randomly pick up a phone to see if someone was there. ::It seems that a chip designer left off an interrupt from some facet of the ::video system, and when asked why said that the programmers didn't have to ::wait for an interupt, they could just check the status bit on the chip. The ::programmers responded by walking over to the phone repeately to "check the ::status". It became such a joke that it even carried over to after-hours ::sessions at the local bar. 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 ...). These same engineers were also responsible for the pretty please register on the Magic Voice cartridge. To get it to say anything, you have to write the registers on the DSP chip twice (hence 'pretty please'). Apocryphal reports state they were run out of town pursued by engineers with pickaxes. ::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.