Wait, are you saying you've got the machine that the bug was originally discovered on? I apparently work with a guy who worked with the guy who discovered how the problem was introduced in a logic lookup table of some sort. Apparently my co-worker's previous co-worker was the one who tracked it down enough for intel to actually verify that there was a problem. It all sounds very urban legend to me, but I suppose if you're in the tech industry the odds of running into someone like this are pretty good...
Exactly. That's what it written & signed on the inside of the case at least. Dr. Nicely was a professor at Lynchburg College. I live in Lynchburg, have never met the man, but came across this when my brother was helping his former boss clean out his basement and take a bunch of things to the dump. The former boss, I'm told, was friends with Dr. Nicely.
You know, instead of speculating about this, why not drop the good Doctor an email?. Who knows? He may be interested in getting this system back...
Scored an AT-PS2 adapter today, so I'm going to try to power it up and see what the story is. If it doesn't boot or I can't figure out if the processor was replaced I may drop him an email.