22:22 <lkcl> Omkar: i heard a story about the inventor of the 6502 doing the entire design in his head, then hand-drew the transistors layer by layer, then getting some sheets of linoneum and a dremel and carving out the masks by hand.

22:22 <lkcl> :)

22:25 <lkcl> slap some ink on the linoneum, press it onto glass: blam there's your lithographic masks.

22:25 <lkcl> the chips worked first time