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From: lou@bearcat.rutgers.edu (Lou Steinberg)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: hidden features
Message-ID: <564@bearcat.rutgers.edu>
Date: 8 Jan 88 09:10:55 GMT
References: <268@stratix.UUCP> <4913@sol.ARPA> <9100@utzoo.UUCP> <2037@ttrdc.UUCP> <1602@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk> <480@auvax.UUCP>
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In article <480@auvax.UUCP> rwa@auvax.UUCP (Ross Alexander) writes:

> > In article <9100@utzoo.UUCP>, henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
> > Apparently, making one model of something is cheaper than making
> > many models of something.  Then, simply charge extra for bringing these
> > options to the surface.  
> 
> BTW, I also heard somewhere that IBM used to charge something
> outrageous for a printer upgrade which involved shifting a belt from
> a large pulley to a small pulley, thereby increasing speed of the
> driven shaft.  Or maybe they actually replaced the pulley ;-).  See
> previous paragraph.

Then there was the CDC 6400 (I think) where the float multiply was
standard but integer multiply was an extra cost option.  (No, I'm not
kidding.)  When we purchased an upgrade, a service engineer came out,
opened the back of the machine, turned key in a lock that was back
there, and voila!  Instant upgrade.
-- 
					Lou Steinberg

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