Re: IBM Engineer...
I've only ever seen purple plague once - ever - in my entire career.
An audio IC manufactured in the early-mid 1970s which erupted purple goo when touched with a soldering iron. By that point (late 1980s) it was a good decade past the point where any of my cow-orkers had seen cases of it and even then it was only in older kit
By the time IBM PCs came along, purple plague was a distant memory
Biting the hand that feeds IT
