On Call Welcome again to On Call, The Register's weekly column in which readers share stories of earnestly trying to fix broken tech, and end up feeling broken afterwards. This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Tex," who briefly worked at a semiconductor company in the second-largest state of the USA. "I was working in their receiving department inspecting and processing incoming components," Tex told On Call. Most of the kit that crossed Tex's desk was mundane and uninteresting, but the jo...