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Maybe this is an urban legend, but: Sinclair Research made early home computers, well known in the UK, not so much elsewhere. These were tricky to set up, and
by ajb 4y ago
Maybe this is an urban legend, but:
Sinclair Research made early home computers, well known in the UK, not so much elsewhere. These were tricky to set up, and often returned as broken. To cut their support costs, supposedly Sinclair, on first receipt of a 'broken' computer would simply add a sticker and send it back, 'repaired'. Often the customer would get it working on this second attempt. Only when a computer was sent in with this sticker already applied, would they actually investigate to see if anything was wrong with it.
- alliao 4y agoif 80% of cases were due to improper connection or EBKAC then this would actually be quite an elegant solution......
- briane80 4y agoAlso there was a famous media interview by clive sinclair telling customers they could fix an issue with the a ram pack upgrade falling off with the use of blu tac
- linker3000 4y agoBack in the days of the Toshiba laptops with the orange plasma screens (T3100 and T3200), a small batch had out of spec panels that were thicker than the right ones. These panels were under more tension in the bezel and had a tendency to shatter. I worked for a Toshiba dealer/repair centre and the first we knew about the problem was when a Tosh came back with a screen that looked like it had taken a bullet. The owner swore that the screen just went 'bang'. The crazy thing was that it still worked! We checked with Toshiba and they basically said 'Yep, replace it' and so it began. We didn't see a lot of these screens, but it was a notable problem.