🚀 go-pugleaf

> But if you look at the early literature, such as the somewhat hyped
> pictures in the early Logic Handbooks, etc., it's clear that they are
> intending to focus in on DEC's "high-tech" production capabilities of
> Flip-Chips, and to take the focus away from the ordinary techniques
> that DEC, as a module maker, used to produce modules no better or worse
> than a dozen other module houses.

Yes.  The loose-leaf notebook "Digitial Flip-Chip Modules, First Revision,
July 1965, C-105 7/65" is full of such hype.  They have nice photos of
such things as hand-assembly of hybrid circuit modules -- from a modern
semiconductor manufacturing perspective, it's really quite quaint!

> BTW, I have a relatively rare publication about Flip-Chips.

I think I just cited the second edition of the same publication!  It's a
pity that DEC didn't stick to this format, because it's refreshing to see
old DEC documentation that's not yet yellowed and crumbling!  Is there a
need for a tutorial on how to rescue old manuals when they reach this state?
I've done reprints of one DEC handbook on archival paper, and I'm willing
to share the art!
					Doug Jones
					jones@cs.uiowa.edu