ebay: Antique UNICAC computer memory planes

From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
Date: Fri Nov 20 13:01:57 1998

At 06:28 PM 11/20/98 -0000, Eric Smith wrote:
>
>The row/column drive line insertion was eventually automated, although
>amazingly enough there was a period of time for which manual assembly was
>less expensive than automatic assembly.

More recently, when did chip companies stop using manual labor
in far-away places for the affixing of the gold wires from the
bonding pads on the silicon die to the metal legs on the chip case?
Isn't this still happening?

- John
Received on Fri Nov 20 1998 - 13:01:57 GMT