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From: The Drone
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 00:00

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In article <957909665.434.0.nnrp-01.d4e48792@news.demon.co.uk>, David
Haworth <dave@fyonn.net> writes

>does anyone remember hearing a story about a computer company ordering some
>hd's from fujitsu I think it was. they ordered something like 10000 with up
>to 3% failures. fujitsu gave them 10000 working hd's and 30 pre-broken ones
>as a statement that they dont make stuff that fails?

When I worked for ICL I remember being told this very story about FJ
chips that were being used in ICL's mainframes. That's about as far as
my memory goes. I think it was 1 in several thousand.

BTW, 3% of 10000 is 300 :-)

Cheers,
-- 
Peter

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