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On Sat, 5 Apr 2025 11:41:11 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> Project I worked on was undersea repeater for optical cables.
> Probably the worst organised and specified project ever, but that's a by
> the by. They said 'you are lucky we are allowed to use a silicon
> processor, up to 5 years ago we had to use germanium' 'Why?' Because
> that was the only technology more than 15 years old that could be
> guaranteed to last the 15 years'

When we built sequential runway lighting controllers the wire harnesses 
had to be laced because the nylon ties used in industry hadn't had a 
couple of decades of use.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_lacing

Luckily all our techs were women, most of whom had knitting or macrame 
skills. The heart of the system was an electro-mechanical stepper that was 
also mostly obsolete in industry.

The SSA probably has people saying 'Rust? Well maybe after it's proven 
itself for 60 years like COBOL.'