[time-nuts] Rubidium standard

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

It used to be, that if you knew the right people at IBM, you could
get a printout of the actually in-field observed MTBF of all their
components.

That database is why they managed to respond to the infamous
"legionnaires disease" in one of their DASD units, where pretty
much all shipped drives died within a very narrow range of power-on
hours, without running into any major lawsuits for incompetence.

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