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

[Paul Sture]

On Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:58:46 -0600, Bob Koehler wrote:

> 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.

An alternative to that was a certain OEM which cut corners on 
construction and boards were left "flapping in the wind" rather than held 
securely in place.



-- 
Paul Sture