From: muratlanne@gmail.com   
      
   "Jim Wilkins"  wrote in message news:108qmc4$1lkak$1@dont-email.me...   
      
   > Perhaps the specifications omitted things assumed obvious.   
      
   For example I was asked to design and build the atomic clock part of   
   portable satellite communications ground support equipment for the US Air   
   Force in Iraq, to specs that didn't include operating temperature range.   
   When I asked they guessed 85F max. I made it as high as I could within the   
   power consumption limit. It was a temporary good-enough rush job because the   
   original contractor had fallen behind, trying to cram in all that was   
   demanded the "right" way.   
      
   I called it the world's biggest, fastest wristwatch, as if those were   
   requested features. It wasn't the most expensive, we omitted the diamonds.   
   There was gold and diamond on another space project since diamond is both an   
   electrical insulator and excellent heat conductor and gold is a reliable   
   electrical contact surface, and about $12 per gram at the time.   
      
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