Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: FCC approval needed?? Message-ID: <4645@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 1 Dec 89 13:16:21 GMT References: <68558@psuecl.bitnet> <552@xdos.UUCP> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 18 In article <552@xdos.UUCP> doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt) writes: > But non-garage-shop companies with larger budgets almost always take care of > it up front to save hassles. I've seen several computer shows where EMI > sniffers detected offending non-certified (and very noisy) equipment, and > the vendors got all their stuff confiscated and were fined, to boot. So even > for tiny companies it's questionable whether it's wise to follow this > frequent practice of waiting for the wheel to squeak before greasing it. Well, a better moral to this story is make damn sure you're satisfied it'll pass, even if you don't go through the bureaucratic paperwork. If you stuff doesn't pass it's gonna cost you a bundle to redesign, tool up, and maybe still build new parts whether they confiscate your stock or just say "try again". -- Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva `-_-' 'U` "Really, a video game is nothing more than a Skinner box." -- Peter Merel