To: The Cajun
LOL, some of the stuff I worked on required a wide field of view X20 binocular microscope and a $3000 Pace solder/desolder station with a vacuum pick up tool to handle the components............Glad I'm retired :^) The stuff we manufactured in the late 80s had diodes six mils across manually thermo-compression wedge-bonded with half-mil wire. The bonding pad on the diode was .0007 across. IIRC, we ran 60GHz through it as a switch.
25 posted on
02/20/2012 5:35:14 PM PST by
Carry_Okie
(The RNC would prefer Obama to a conservative nominee.)
To: Carry_Okie
Ouch!
Seven layer boards with smc's that had to take 350 deg F and vibration was bad enough.
28 posted on
02/20/2012 6:06:18 PM PST by
The Cajun
(Palin, Free Republic, Mark Levin, Newt......Nuff said.)
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