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From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Yet Another Upgrade Anecdote
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Date: 6 May 90 13:32:50 GMT
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In article <23254.26434102@ccavax.camb.com> merriman@ccavax.camb.com writes:
>And then there was the infamous MicroVAX II RC (for restricted configuration).
>It sold cheap and was the same as any other MVII, except the last four or five
>slots on the backplane were filled with epoxy! I know of one instance where the
>DEC field service tech happily ordered new, undamaged backplanes and installed
>them in some RCs under warranty!

What do companies do stupid things like this for? All it can do is generate
ill will. I look at a crippled product and say "what the hell are they trying
to pull? I sure don't like the idea of doing business with a company
that does things like that." Are there actually people who fall for
thsi kind of stuff?

Doug McDonald