> Alan B. Pearce wrote:
> >> Like the cheap oven that had the clock and timer covered
> >> with a blank panel because it wasn't ordered with that option.
> >
> > Or the car where you paid some hundreds of dollars to get reversing
> > lights on it, and the only thing that needed to be done was fit the
> > switch to the gearbox. All the wiring and lights were factory fitted.
>
> There was a real case with a computer (Data General if I remember
> right) in
> the early 1980s where when you ordered a memory upgrade the
> technician came
> out and snipped a jumper.


Still happens, but the flip a bit in an EEPROM now.  Happened to a company I
as at a few years ago, the $$$$$ upgrade to double the units speed*
consisted of an EEPOM swap.  We contemplated comparing them to find the
exact bit.

And didn't Dell ships PC's ordered without a CD-ROM by just unplugging the
cable?

Tony


* Speed went from 32 to 64 instructions per second!  Like the PIC, you can
time programs by counting the instructions.  Jumps were 1 instruction.  On
the bright side, a file copy was as fast as multiplication which was as fast
as addition.  The cynical may view that statement in reverse.  This was
Interactive Voice Response (IVR) gear.

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