Got a pleasant surprise with an Xbox360 cable from ebay the other day. It was packaged and addressed just the way I do it and the cable itself was spotless and smelled of soap!
Here is what it takes to build a humble digital clock using valves. You can imagine what a CPU would look like -
http://www.jogis-roehrenbude.de/Leserbriefe/Bruegmann-Digital-Roehren-Clock/Digital-Roehrenuhr.htm
Build quality is pretty incredible. There is a picture near the end of the...
Maybe a nanobot mist/grey goo situation. Tiny gizmos designed to crawl about silicon wafers to repair flaws and increase yields go haywire and gradually destroy all microchips. Only chips manufactured with a nice chunky feature size are immune.
Excessive tape irritates me a bit too. Here is my tip - For taping bubble wrap, use masking tape, just a few strips to keep it in place, infinitely easier to remove for reuse than wrapped round and round with parcel tape.
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