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From: rwl@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Ray Lubinsky)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Ethics of crippler circuitry
Message-ID: <2985@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU>
Date: 17 Feb 89 17:27:45 GMT
References: <7143@pyr.gatech.EDU> <11630010@hpsmtc1.HP.COM> <205@nlgvax.UUCP>
Organization: U.Va. CS in Charlottesville VA
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In article <205@nlgvax.UUCP>, hans@nlgvax.UUCP (Hans Zuidam) writes:
> IBM and the computer industry at large are not the only ones using this
> pricing strategy. You see the same effect in pricing of audio equipement
> (CD players!), pocket calculators, and so on.

Funny you should mention that.  In the late 70's, I bought a four-function LED
calculator from Sears.  While fooling around with it, I discoverd that pressing
[X] followed by [/] would produce the square root of the number!

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