On
Fab's Commodore page Bil Herd tells the long and winding story of getting the c128 finished (sort of) for the 1985 CES
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So to recap, going into December we had a chip with .001% yield, the left columns didn't work, anytime there was one pixel by itself you couldn't see it, the semi useless block transfer didn't work right, the power supply had to be adjusted for each chip, and it blew up before you loaded all of the fonts unless you took 10 seconds to load the fonts in which case it blew up only sometimes.
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Upon arriving at the hotel we find that out hotel reservations have been canceled by someone who fits the description of an Atari employee
Much reduced, cleaned up and presentable version
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if that's too long, a few highlights
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