Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!rh From: rh@mit-eddie.UUCP (Randy Haskins) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: 'Artificially' different products Message-ID: <434@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Tue, 12-Jul-83 00:27:20 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddie.434 Posted: Tue Jul 12 00:27:20 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Jul-83 07:06:25 EDT References: <108@ucbvax.UUCP> Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 21 Several years ago, Hewlett-Packard made a calculator with a built-in stopwatch, and another calculator that was the same except for the stopwatch. Naturally the latter calculator was cheaper. However, by pressing an undocumented combination of buttons on the latter calculator, you could put it in the stopwatch mode that it wasn't supposed to have! yeah, my dad just bought a remote control TV. The box doesn't have a mute switch on it, but if you press down two buttons at once (I think it was CH-up and CH-down, because that's more obscure than the volume buttons) it would mute. He was really blown away by that. I guess you pay more for not being inventive. -- Randwulf (Randy Haskins) genrad!mit-eddie!rh or... rh@mit-ee (via mit-mc)