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That was not a slip - that was clearly intended failure.
by blubb-fish 10y ago
That was not a slip - that was clearly intended failure.
- simonh 10y agoApparently it was because they used an incomplete copy of an electrolyte formula developed in Japan, but didn't understand the chemistry of the formula properly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague#Industrial_espionage_implicated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague#Industrial_es...