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Abex Aerospace

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Eikon Hard Disks

Inmac

Interlink

Renco

Wyatt Technology

UC Santa Barbara

Eikon Thin Film Hard Disks

Back when hard disks were an exotic new product, Eikon built one of the first fully robotic production lines. I patterned the first page of the brochure to look like a Scientific American article to explain the new thin-film plating technology.

Thin film hard disks were mostly vaporware at this time, so I emphasized the existence of an actual physical production line already in operation.

One day when I was walking through the factory, I found a barrel of scrap disks--mirror-like, perfect jewels, except they failed some test or another. In order to once again prove that the company was not vaporware, I silk-screened a thousand disks with the invitation to the grand opening of the factory. The grand opening was a grand success--the Los Angeles Times had a front-page story about it in the Sunday business section.