[Info-vax] Current VMS engineering quality, was: Re: What's VMS up to these days?

[Bob Koehler]

In article <jj5ro9$9mv$1 at speranza.aioe.org>, glen herrmannsfeldt <gah at ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:
> 
> There is a story about an IBM system, I believe system/3,
> that came with either 32K or 64K of memory, with the lease
> price depending on the memory size. It was cheaper to build
> only one model, with a switch. When you order 64K they send
> someone out to turn the switch to 64K. (All machines were
> leased and under maintainence contract.)

   Beats putting epoxy in the backplane, then selling backplanes
   cheaper than the option.