Commendation     David A. Gatwood
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I hope that one of the responsible recipients sends a copy of something
appropriate to Mr. Gatwood's personnel file at Apple.

I've been watching the complaints about inane or anal hardware spec
protectiveness in various venues for years.  It certainly seems to me that
David's suggestions and help on this brings Apple into higher repute
and surely acts to raise the value of the installed base of Apple hardware
which in turn must serve the corporation well in the long term.

This is a comparatively small thing but the ramifications may be wonderful.

As well, doesn't getting hardware working raise our affinities for Macs,
with consequent good influences into various other adjacent domains
(there's a better way to say that isn't there?).

Commendations to Mr. Gatwood.  Maybe soon we'll have a floppy drive.

Ken Hughes
Vancouver, B.C.

On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, David A. Gatwood wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Nyef wrote:
> > On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, David A. Gatwood wrote:
> > > On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Nyef wrote:
> > > > > 1.  The two modes of SWIM are IWM and ISM, not IWM and SWIM.
> > > >
> > > > Okay. I just called it SWIM mode because it was new to the SWIM chip and
> > > > none of the documentation I could find even _mentioned_ a mode switch.
> > >
> > > Heh.  Well, the chip isn't exactly documented....
> > 
> > My point exactly. ^_-
> 
> Would you like documentation?  :-)
> 
> What I have: IWM, SWIM, SWIM II, and SWIM III ERS docs, an old 6502
> assembly driver for IWM (with comments), and probably some other stuff,
> but I'll need to go through it and see how much of that I can send, since
> third party hardware docs could be involved.  Basically, it's about a 3"
> 3-ring binder full of really crusty old docs.
> 
> I just spoke with someone in Apple Legal, and got clearance to make a copy
> and mail it to someone.  I just need to know to whom I should send it. 
> (If you need to make copies for a small number of people, that's okay, but
> I can only send out one copy for obvious cost reasons. :-)  Talk amongst
> yourselves.
> 
> 
> Later,
> David
> 
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> David A. Gatwood                                dgatwood@gatwood.net
> Developer Docs Writer                             dgatwood@apple.com
> Apple Computer                                  dgatwood@mklinux.org