With the Ronco Home Wafer Fab Line?
I passed on a three inch Mask Aligner once, went for $25 at the Oregon State
University Auction. Was in perfect shape and locked down. I bought the 4 inch
Mask Aligner for $150 and resold it on the used market. There was still demand
for it.
It is possible to have your own production line.
I have not seen many wafers in surplus stores. Wacky Willy in PDX had some
original Wacker test wafers many years ago but none recently.
I bought about 80 test wafers from Gene Amdahl's Trilogy project which I have
been parting out on eBay and privately.
Paxton
Astoria, OR