Back in the late 90’s and early 2k I spent a lot of time on the PCCHIPS lottery forums due to basically using all PCCHIPS products (sometimes unwittingly) for around a decade. They were always much more helpful than wimsbios in my experience, especially Peter.

I still occasionally go back to the archive.org version and an archived copy of PCCHIPS Thai site.

http://www.stud.fernuni-hagen.de/q3998142/pcchips/

Does anyone remember why the lottery forum died and was never properly archived?

When it died there were still board models that were sold by PCCHIPS but never documented outside forum posts which are now somewhat difficult to find due to how archive.org works.

Some of the bios versions there were never on the main PCCHIPS sites

Ah well, tough to time travel to 2006