Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!cbmvax!grr From: grr@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (George Robbins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Great big huge floppy disk? Message-ID: <1180@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> Date: Fri, 26-Dec-86 15:49:03 EST Article-I.D.: cbmvax.1180 Posted: Fri Dec 26 15:49:03 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 26-Dec-86 21:41:23 EST References: <346@csustan.UUCP> <5396@ukma.ms.uky.csnet> <1172@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> <8118@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 28 In article <8118@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> lachac@topaz.UUCP (Gerard Lachac) writes: >In article <1172@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes: >>pricetag is going to be much higher. Also, PC drives require no casework, >>power supplies, or FCC approval. > > Boy this one has got me totally confused!! Is IBM that powerful that >it tells the FCC to "pass us by"??? Could you elaborate on this? As I understand it, the current FCC rationale is that expansion cards and devices that plug into an FCC approved system, and *do not* have any external connections do not *currently* require FCC approval. Also some devices the seem primarily passive, including interrconnection cables, adapters, joysticks and *mice* do not *currently* require FCC approval. Of course, the FCC is a government agency, and is not required to be sensible. These distinctions probably represent a compromise between a bureaucratic desire to control everything, and the amount of work required to do so... The ultimate irony is that the rules only apply to devices that generate and *use* radio-frequency energy. Appliances that don't use RF, but squirt it out anyway, like your bug zapper, electric drill, neon sign or vacuum cleaner are not covered by these regulations. -- George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {ihnp4|seismo|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing arpa: cbmvax!grr@seismo.css.GOV Commodore, Engineering Department fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)