Just in case anyone cares about history of the HP year of chips.
Royce had been making the brass cores for HP.
They quit making chips.
Tom Bolling President at HP bought the brass core molds and sent them to Chipco so he could keep the series alive.
Chipco could not produce chips from the core molds. They just could not make the molds work. The fiasco was a huge $ loss.
Tommy had the Chipco's made for the year of chips.