[blam]

"As time races by, most of us barely notice the change that wear and tear inflicts on the objects around us. "

As a 30 year clean-room, chip-maker, all that worn 'stuff' wound up on my wafers/chips. We knew about wear, trust me.

[mairdie]

When I recorded the John Cocke interview, I still remember him talking about the original computer cores wearing out and dripping oil.

John Cocke, A Retrospective by Friends