by CE Instruments » Fri Jul 19, 2013 11:37 am
Yep as a rep it was always tough trying to justify why the PC we supplied cost 3 times more than the same one directly from the supplier
Normally I lost it in the overall package, gave it as part of the discount etc. Why did we do it ? Well in the early days all PCs were not equal. It costs a fortune when we let a company buy their own and some idiot in IT knew better and bought a PC without an essential card or that had something that clashed with the software
It can all go wrong anyway. Back in the early days of Windows 95 we at Fisons VG were using Digital PCs. We had just launched a new version of Masslab and started getting blue screen of death failures around the world. New PCs were shipped off , often with engineers but the failures kept occurring. Once the screen came up it rarely ran again for more than an hour. Systems seemed to be OK at the factory so we switched back to the old software, still issues !! Eventually longer tests found that even in the factory this occurred. One sensible engineer got a PC out of the box and left it running for a couple of days without loading our software. Sure enough it crashed with the same error
Digital were supplying us with PCs that were not compatible with Windows
Following the court cases they were bought by HP