Yup. And when I joined in March of '86 I needed to help a customer with the crypto chip but there weren't any systems with them around, so I went over to Buildi

Yup. And when I joined in March of '86 I needed to help a customer with the crypto chip but there weren't any systems with them around, so I went over to Building 10 and we "built" a Sun 3/50 from parts inventory, including the chip, which I carried back over to my office in building 5. However, because it had never gone through the manman system (manufacturing tracking) the system didn't exist when Sun got around to doing inventory management internally! I regret not taking the advice of a senior engineer there at the time (John L.) who said, "Well if it doesn't exist, you should take it home, no one will miss it." But no, I figured out how to make it "real" and got it put into the system so that it could get an inventory tag. (a special one it turned out, that identified it for "secured destruct." Aka things that were crushed and not scrapped)