Nicely's 2011 retrospective FAQ corroborates his 1994 e-mail's two headline dates exactly, but is explicitly a memory-based reconstruction for everything beyond them

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A companion page on Thomas Nicely's own site, an FAQ dated "0900 GMT 19 August 2011" — seventeen years after the event — gives a detailed day-by-day chronology of the Pentium FDIV disclosure: "24 October — I call Intel tech support and inform them of the problem," and "30 October — With no substantive response to this point from either Micron tech support or Intel tech support, I dispatch my initial e-mail inquiry... to several individuals and groups (at approximately 3:20:49 pm EST)." Both dates match the contemporaneous 1994 e-mail exactly, independently confirming them from the same author writing at two different removes from the event.

Nicely is explicit about the document's evidentiary status, however: "Following below is the chronology as best I can now reconstruct it." This is a recollection, not a log — the sourcing pattern used elsewhere in this vault for oral-history testimony applies directly: Tier 1 for what Nicely says he remembers, Tier 2–3 for the facts the memory is about. The two headline dates don't need this caveat, since the 1994 e-mail anchors them independently. Everything else in the FAQ's added detail does: the precise dispatch time (3:20:49 pm EST); the claim, relayed from an unnamed Intel program manager, that Intel had already noticed the problem in its own testing — which Nicely says he "later learned" apparently happened "during testing of a similar FPU intended for the P6, in May or June of 1994" — a priority-of-discovery detail that would be load-bearing if promoted further, and is [unverified-mechanism — needs primary] as it stands, sourced only to a 17-years-later secondhand recollection; and the day-by-day narrative of intermediate steps (17–22 October testing on additional Pentiums). A widely repeated secondary tradition names the Intel-side discoverer as "Tom Kraljevic," but that name appears in neither of Nicely's own documents read here, and is not asserted by this note.