Re: [MI400] How does this software work??

[thomas@xxxxxxxxxxx]

On Thu, 18 October 2001, "Dennis Lovelady" wrote:

> Well, naturally sales of the higher model started to fall not long after
> this, and IBM figured out why.  Those who had chosen this method of upgrade,
> IBM presented an upgrade bill to.  The whole issue ended up being tested in
> court.  So now there are laws governing this, saying basically that a
> manufacturer can't legally charge more for a product whose only difference
> is that it has less parts, or some such.  IBM lost on that one and had to
> find more devious ways of engineering their various models of systems.

Can't say anything about that case; but around '71-'72, we upgraded a 2311 disk 
subsystem for a 1401 from 2.5MB to 5MB (IIRC). The CE removed a stop-screw that 
had prevented the disk arm from fully traversing the platters. Voila! Doubled 
capacity! If a customer did that without purchasing the upgrade, I suspect 
IBM's recourse would be under voided warranty, etc.

Tom Liotta

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