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EEPROMs, radiation detector tubes, flatpack mystery devices ... this is making me more curious. I am knowledgeable about RADHARD testing, possibly this involves work done in the early development of that technology. GaAs was naturally RADHARD and used in many early satellites/missiles. Very expensive to manufacture, so the search was on to use develop cheaper fab processes that exhibited satisfactory radiation hardness.
Just one of many possibilities I guess. What else is hiding in that drawer?
Just lots and lots of silicon and germanium sliced that you can tell had been sputtered and modified. It looks like they may have been trying to grow their own silicon as well.
There are more slides, I’ll shoot them as time allows.
A slice from a nearly forgotten time. I have to admit, seeing some of that old equipment makes me cringe! In the beginning of my career I did a lot of bench work and used equipment maybe 10 years newer than this lab. There was always a problematic cable, probe, power supply, fixture, something ... stupid shit to sort before the real work began.
There’s still stupid shit that breaks before the work begins. That’s a universal constant.
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