"One can only assume that you made the chip by the way you proudly attatched it to your posts."

Several others proudly attached the same chip to their posts. You could have assumed any one of them made it.

Assumptions are easy to post on the BB.
An email asking if an assumption is true is also easy and much better than posting an Un-true assumption.

"My appologies for saying you made the chip."
Accepted.

"please Gene, tell us who did."

I do not think it is important who made the chip. A large number of BBer's could have made it. A large number of BBer's have been ridiculed repeatedly over a 3 year span, by a person whose only purpose on the internet is to start arguments and try his best to make people look like fools.