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

[Paul Sture]

On Tue, 06 Mar 2012 20:23:37 +0000, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:

> 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.)

That happened with disks and line printers too.  The extra capacity or 
speed was enabled by snipping a link on a circuit board.

-- 
Paul Sture