Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

Sorry, I mistyped (should have typed 70s/80s). Since I spent 3 years at EMC after competing with them for many years (my first job was with IBM on the 360 system in 1964/5), I know a bit about their history. While EMC became well known for their triple mirrored disk storage (the Symetrix) which incorporated a BCV (business continuance volume) and an internal battery and UPS, they actually sold 3rd party memory for both IBM and DEC prior to the Symetrix. If you owned a Symetrix, the cabinet was typically locked and could only be serviced by EMC. I actually have the battery box out of a Symetrix in my basement. When I was at NetApp, when we took a Symetrix in trade, we typically dismantled it before shipping it back to corporate where they installed an aquarium in the cabinet and shipped it back to a local NetApp office to be displayed in the lobby (smile). In the trade, they were often referred to as the “evil machine company”, or the “Boston Mafia” partly because of the fact that they were tough enough to have taken a big piece of their storage business out of IBM’s hide. The story of removing devices from IBM memory cards so that the IBM machine would not identify them as “foreign” was related to me by my EMC sales manager who was from Boston and had been with the company from the beginning.

BTW, I was not a fan of EMC and ended up with them only because they bought my company, Isilon, (clustered NAS storage) long before they were acquired by Dell.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

SO true. Here’s my favorite from today (accompanied by an image of a new stove on a front porch) “ Is anyone expecting a stove. Someone delivered to our home and just left it. Doorbell camera shows only an unmarked truck”

JD750 Loc: SoCal

There are different battery manufacturers and different countries of origin.

However when a company buys a product from manufacturer X, the company can specify additional levels of testing to screen out lower quality parts.

We do this same thing buying electronic parts. For example manufacturers make resistors and sell 20%, 10% 5%, 1% tolerance resistors. They are all from the same line the tighter tolerances are cherry picked. So buying 10% values you might not get the values closer to nominal, they have been picked out of the lot.

For military use those same resistors go through additional screen testing, temperature shock, vibration etc. The end result is higher reliability on the screened parts.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

37 people said "I am.".....

JD750 Loc: SoCal

Usually people include a cross street in those types of posts to those sites. But you get the full distribution of IQ (not the image kind) on those neighborhood sites, and that includes the tails of the distribution.

JD750 Loc: SoCal

LOL so true.

JD750 Loc: SoCal

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

The majority I've seen just ask if anyone else lost power, rarely a location, but it happens.

I'll guess the distribution is a highly shifted bell curve.

JD750 Loc: SoCal

What is the cost of a new interchangeable lens camera?

JD750 Loc: SoCal

Umm.. that has already happened.

JD750 Loc: SoCal

They can't prevent you from buying them but they can prevent you from using them. ;)

Bridges Loc: Memphis, Charleston SC, now Nazareth PA

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Not always true. It could be today though.
I bought a new 1959 Hillman Minx and had the usual electrical problems that British cars with Lucas electrical systems have here in the US.
The one part, the Voltage Regulator, that was common for several British cars I had to replace 3 times. Each time I gave the parts house the part number, they would ask, "Hillman, Jaguar or Rolls-Royce?" The reason was the price difference for the same identical part. For the Hillman it cost $19.95, for the Jaguar it cost $95.95 and for the Rolls Royce it cost $199.95 for the identical part, no difference .

With camera manufacturers now it is not the same since the "New Kid on the Block" cellular phones have seriously intruded into what was exclusive territory and will not be going away anytime soon. "The best camera is the one you have with you" has been true and will continue to be true and most people have a cellular phone with them all the time. They are reasonably easy to carry nowadays though the early ones were like carrying a brick.

As a result the camera companies have to be looking at every possible way to stay in business and the super micro electronics gives them many opportunities to do so.

I would buy the OEM batteries every time, but when they no longer make them, I refuse to buy a new camera! Fortunately, or unfortunately, I don't depend on a camera for any serious reason, so I can be happy with old technology which for now has 3rd party batteries readily available.[/quote]

I can attest to that. About 25 years ago I needed a muffler for my car. It was 175.00. I told the service man it seemed very expensive (remember it was 25 years ago). The last muffler I had replaced, maybe 20 years before that had only cost 39.99. The service man said 175 wasn't bad and showed me his pricing manual and turned to a page for a Mercedes and the price was 1200.00! No more complaints!

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Oh my!!! I'll bet that one got funny responses.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Knowledgeable DIYers who own Lexus cars buy many Toyota parts for the equivalent Lexus built on the same platform. They are the same parts. There are several cross-references to part numbers for just this purpose.