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Reminds me of back in the mid 90's when I worked at IBM at the Cottle road site. One hot summer we had rolling blackouts. I was working in disk sputtering for h
by BashiBazouk 4y ago
Reminds me of back in the mid 90's when I worked at IBM at the Cottle road site. One hot summer we had rolling blackouts. I was working in disk sputtering for hard drives. IBM had good backup generators. When the power went out it was just a flicker with the change over but it was enough to kill the vacuum of the Ulvac sputtering tool I was working on. More accurately, it probably killed the certification of the vacuum. We had to open her up, bake out the cryo-pumps, clean the machine then pump back down to the proper vacuum. A good 5 hours to get back in to production. Most of it pumping down to the proper vacuum. Good times.