Collecting silicon wafers

From: Roger Merchberger <zmerch_at_30below.com>
Date: Sun Mar 9 18:39:01 2003

At 18:33 03/09/2003 -0500, Steven N. Hirsch wrote:
>On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, James Rice wrote:
>
> > steven wrote:
> >
> > >It's true, fab-rich places in Arizona, California,
> > >Oregon, and Texas are using wafers as wall
> > >decorations!
> > >
> > >
> > Me too. There's a ton of them floating around from the old Mostek fab
> > and TI.
>
>In real life, I work for a company which fabs semiconductors. Removing
>wafers, even defective ones, from the premises without authorization is
>a swift and sure way to end ones career.

On a slightly different take... How would one get permission to remove a
few defective wafers solely for the sake of collectibility? Not many fabs
up here in northern Michigan -- on the Canadian border... ;-)

Is ePay my only hope of acquiring one???

Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
Received on Sun Mar 09 2003 - 18:39:01 GMT