James Newton. Admin 3 wrote:
>
> My dad was an engineer at Hughes Aircraft in the semiconductor division (did
> you know they had one?) and had to troubleshoot a number of problems. The
> worst one was when the metallic vapors that were deposited on the wafers
> stopped sticking to the surface. After much investigating, dad found out
> that the night crew was using the ovens to heat up their chicken, burritos,
> etc... and the microscopic volume of grease was plating onto the inside and
> then coating the wafers along with the metals during production.
>
> No metal vapor in the kitchen, no food in the clean room.


Ha ha! Now I know why PICs fail sometimes!
Traces of Burrito in the die...
;o)
-Roman

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