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When an engineer takes a flight to install memory, it is clear that you are being over charged. These companies milked their monopoly position quite well.
by varispeed 6y ago
When an engineer takes a flight to install memory, it is clear that you are being over charged. These companies milked their monopoly position quite well.
- arethuza 6y agoThe memory was from a 3rd party supplier, not from Sun. People on the same project drove from Milan to Edinburgh with their equivalent workstation in van to give one demo....
- tonyedgecombe 6y agoThis is what it what it was like back then. I used to travel up and down the country installing systems and often wondered if there was somebody driving in the opposite direction to do the same job somewhere else.
- arethuza 6y agoYeah - my first job (in 1988) was mostly travelling about installing new software and fixing problems with various breeds of Unix/Xenix systems. Remote access was pretty rare.