Oh about that Abit video

Originally when I wrote the video about the BP6 it was going to end up being like an hour and 45 minutes long because I was going to segue into a highly in-depth history of Intel from 1993 to 1999, covering the whole phenomenon of the Pentium pro, Pentium 2, Celeron, etc.

Fortunately I had the foresight to recognize that there were some issues and unanswered questions in that back half, and went back in and rerecorded the BP6 segment on it's own; this made it much better, since it actually focused on the machine itself. I think that if you wanted to actually know about the BP6 and it's potential value at the time, the video I ended up making is pretty good.

As I started rewriting the second half, with the intent of shooting it a week later, I found error after error after error, and eventually concluded that I had the entire narrative incorrect. I then did several more weeks of reading and piecing things together and concluded that, while the story is still very interesting and several of the salient points are still valid, it would have been laughably incorrect as originally written.

As I was coming up on the second week of research and rewrites, the opportunity to get the warehouse came up; that threw everything off of course, and then I got sick for like a month and change. When I started feeling better, I decided I wanted to focus on the new space and shoot some videos there to get both me and the audience used to it - This seems to have worked, since the phone video did so much better than I ever imagined it would, and suggests more interest in phones than I thought was out there.

But of course I do want to get back in the main studio and do more of my in-depth stuff, I'm just off-kilter and the Intel story is a really big one that I'm not prepared to attempt until I give it another full rewrite. Seriously, there are a LOT of moving parts and a LOT of inferences that have to be made carefully, because if I'm *not* careful, I'll end up creating myths instead of squashing them.

So probably in the near future you'll see another video or two about various computers, and then hopefully the Intel story will come in January. Thanks for hanging around!