In <54813fe9.1070...@tombrennansoftware.com>, on 12/04/2014 at 09:17 PM, Tom Brennan <t...@tombrennansoftware.com> said:
>I just found some of those in my old reference card collection - >http://www.mildredbrennan.com/mvs/disk_summaries.jpg Have you submitted the cards to bitsavers? >Reminds me of a story my dad told me about an electronics company >in the 70's. He said they only made 200V diodes but also marked >them as 100V, 50V, 20V, and 10V - each less expensive as the >voltage "dropped". That's marketing I guess. Did they all pass the same QA, or did they sell diodes that failed at 200V for use at lower voltages? In the case of IBM, they had two card punches that differed only in the position of a switch. Naturally, the faster model was more expensive. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
