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- From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
- Subject: Re: CDs cheaper to make than cassettes?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.083149.22184@news.columbia.edu>
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- Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
- Organization: Columbia University
- References: <92318.115328MSB101@psuvm.psu.edu> <BxuEKt.LqB@egsner.cirr.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 08:31:49 GMT
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- In article <BxuEKt.LqB@egsner.cirr.com> datri@egsner.cirr.com (Anthony Datri) writes:
- >>Along related lines (I know this one is true), it is cheaper to make certain
- >>computer chips with math coprocessors than to make them without (since it costs
- >> extra money to sever the line to the coprocessor). But the ones with the
- >>coprocessor cost more. Of course in this case, you're paying for technology...
- >
- >>Are there any other blatant examples of charging more for something that is
- >>actually cheaper to manufacture?
-
- I understand that IBM 1401's were always containing something like 16K, and
- the board came with a jumper to make it 8K. When the field service guy left
- you reenabled the 16K you weren't paying to have maintained (you purchased
- it to have 8K, but got the 16K board with the disable jumper; the field
- service contract specified to maintain an 8K machine).
-
- There was a 360/30 option to allegedly have floating point hardware, at
- extra cost, complete with a switch to "disable" it, but the switch didn't
- do anything, since all of the delivered machines actually had the FP hardware,
- even if you neither paid for it, nor paid to have it maintained.
-
- cjl
-