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  2. From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
  4. Subject: Caveat Emptor and sneaky marketing tricks
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan6.212342.29208@njitgw.njit.edu>
  6. Date: 6 Jan 93 21:23:42 GMT
  7. References: <C0Eo1u.1CyK@austin.ibm.com> <1993Jan6.113212.20951@wraxall.inmos.co.uk>
  8. Sender: news@njit.edu
  9. Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.
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  12.  
  13. In article <1993Jan6.113212.20951@wraxall.inmos.co.uk> des@inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd) writes:
  14. >A few years ago I heard someone from INMOS advising a customer to buy
  15. >a transputer board with 2Mb of memory rather try to save money by
  16. >getting one with 1Mb and the fit another Mb of memory chips
  17. >themselves. The advice given was "The unused memory sockets may not
  18. >have been tested" - can't remember if the customer was stupid enough
  19. >to fall for this! 
  20.  
  21. This sounds like one that was common in the early days of PC's.
  22. Everyone advised against using single-sided media in double-sided
  23. drives because "the back side isn't tested".  This is a load of hooey,
  24. since some single-sided drives used the top surface, and others used
  25. the bottom surface - requiring the vendors to test both sides anyway!
  26. -- 
  27.   |)  David Charlap          | .signature confiscated by FBI due to
  28.  /|_  dic5340@hertz.njit.edu | an ongoing investigation into the
  29. ((|,)                        | source of these .signature virusses
  30.  ~|~
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