Sun H/W Quality Qontrol
henry at zoo.toronto.edu
henry at zoo.toronto.edu
Sat Jun 30 03:44:22 AEST 1990
>... when I added memory to my
>3/60, I found that the `next' SIMM socket didn't work...
>The only way this could have passed testing is if there was none. Pretty
>bad when you consider that connectors and cables are the most defect prone
>components in an electronic assembly.
Did Sun ever guarantee that you could install SIMMs yourself and have them
work? Betcha they didn't. :-) Assuming they did a proper job of hardware
quality control (I will not comment on how realistic this assumption is
:-)), they tested the configuration as shipped, on the assumption that
whoever installed field upgrades would test those upgrades and not release
them to the customer until they checked out.
I don't, offhand, know of any manufacturer who tests all possible plug-in
extras when shipping a box without them.
Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
henry at zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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