Dwayne Reid wrote:

> But I was part of the team that diagnosed a major reliability problem 
> at a coal-fired power generating station and it was I who discovered 
> the root cause: tin whisker growth on a wire-wrap backplane 
> controlling one of the three generators.
> 

What made wire-wrapping necessary on something required to be so highly
reliable? Yes, I know wirewrapping can be reliable but it seems as
though through-hole PCBs are about the most reliable construction method.
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Martin
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