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So much in this short anecdote:

• Engineers work on projects after hours for the sheer joy of engineering.

• Management not compensating these efforts encourages the engineers to leave (and the ones you probably actually want to keep).

• Clever hack: creating a loop with a prime-number cycle-count relationship with another loop so to avoid "phase locking".

• Clever hack: two-chip peripheral card for the Apple II.

• The utility (albeit slow-speed) of the Apple II design that allowed for a two-chip peripheral card solution in the first place.

• Bill, Bill, Bud, Burrell, Battlestar Galactica.



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