An amusing story about DEC's cards from Grant Saviers: At DEC "deep sixing" NTF cards had real meaning. Since the mill [that held DEC] had a mill pond, NTF re

An amusing story about DEC's cards from Grant Saviers: At DEC "deep sixing" NTF cards had real meaning. Since the mill [that held DEC] had a mill pond, NTF repeat cards would often take flight out an open window into the pond. Probably thousands of them there as Ken Olsen wrote a memo that was posted along those windows, "Any employee who throws modules out the windows will be summarily dismissed." [NTF is "No Trouble Found", indicating a card that was returned as defective, but worked fine when tested. If this keeps happening, destroying the card would be very tempting. Compare with analog IC genius Bob Widlar, who would "Widlarize" offending parts by pounding them to dust with a hammer: http://hackaday.com/2014/04/08/heroes-of-hardware-revolution-bob-widlar/ http://hackaday.com/2014/04/08/heroes-of-hardware-revolution...]