On 04/08/2011 06:26 PM, Patrick Elliott wrote:

> Hmm.. So, in tech, its the same as everything else now. Facts, reality,
> and sane policy don't matter, just whether or not the idea sells? lol

What do you mean "now"? :-P

I read somewhere that way, waaaaay back in the days when people actually 
bought line printers from IBM, and they cost hundreds of thousands of 
dollars, there was a model that had a "field installable upgrade". For 
something like 80,000 USD, an IBM engineer would come to your site, 
remove one of the drive wheels, and install one with a different 
diameter. This made the printer print twice as fast.

It's an engineering solution - once you realise that the goal is not to 
make a better printer, but to bleed the customer dry.

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