Yes especially the quick dying ones that only lasted between 1-6 months. You could see the corrosion creeping across the die under a microscope , "purple creeping crud" we called it. There was a point probably late 84 early 85 where the passivation problem was fixed. -----Original Message----- From: owner-cbm-hackers@musoftware.de [mailto:owner-cbm-hackers@musoftware.de] On Behalf Of Gerrit Heitsch Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 11:48 AM To: cbm-hackers@musoftware.de Subject: Re: Commodore PLA equations (complete) On 06/06/2012 06:12 AM, Bil Herd wrote: > Layer 7 was the passivation which we sucked at for quite a while. Would that explain why the PLA and some other chips made by MOS tended to die after a while? Gerrit Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2012-06-06 18:00:07
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