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Is it true, as some say, that hidden within this chip lies the secret answer to the terrible riddle of Gulf War Syndrome?
From Acts of the Apostles, page 121:
". . . a small pea-green printed circuit board,
about five inches by ten. In the middle of the front face, dwarfing
everything else, was a squat postmodern skyscraper: an inch-tall square
stack of dull brown clay and shiny silver metal, about two inches on
each side, that rose from the surface of the board like a collossal
hotel in the desert. Thick wires of black, red and copper were crudely
soldered onto the stack at various places, and capacitors and resistors
joined them, all held in place by solder, black tape, transparent tape
and that snot-green glue. Atop this crude ceramic towere there was a
little square well, and situated in that, connected by gold wires impossibly
fine, there was a single silver iridescent chip."
The legend, not quite legible in this photo,
says, "Kali- 1987-(cancelled) Cache controller for the Roadrunner workstation.
A good idea one day too late.
From hush-hush
to irrelevant in one incandescent whoosh."
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