MOS Technology buildings to be demolished!

[BilHerd]

Hi all,

I received a call from Chuck and thought I would swing by to see what some of the details might be.

Not sure how much usable stock ever was on the premises, especially given the quality issues we had occasionally.  I believe the Amiga chips were carried three times around the world in wafer form, unfortunately not stored correctly from what I heard.

As for the 8 but stuff, I would think that that really wouldn't have sat in a post production inventory but I could be wrong.

Might be some cool memorabilia, what I wouldn't give for just what I used to have in my office by way of wafers and plots.

Regards,

Bil Herd

[BilHerd]

OMG, we used to hurl these at each other!  I remember shaking the tiny shards of "glass" out of my hair from where one had shattered next to me.

I also tried to "cleave" one one time by lining up the flat edge with the edge of the desk and rapidly striking it.  Again glass in the hair (I had lots of hair)

One day on eof the chip guys, Dave DiOrio mentioned how to knock a wafer into the geometric sections of the lattice, you take a pen point to the middle of the wafer and strike it like a punch.  You git either 5 or 6 pieces depending on silicon if  I remember right.

Bil Herd

alexh wrote:
I would expect there will be nothing there at all, no office furniture, nothing.

You'll never get official access, the health and safety not to mention insurance problems would be huge.

If you "break in" if there are any chips they are likely to be in IC trays.



Take care if there are any IC wafers, they are very sharp if broken and are very toxic.