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After dealing with DEC's and Compaq's spare parts messes for years, I have to
claim that part of the problem with Compaq's on-going viability was simply the total mess of spare parts. Poor management of parts made product builds, logistics, inventories, and who knows what else far more complicated than necessary. Both DEC and Compaq generated more spare parts than they knew what to do with. For example, as I've gone thru several generations of Compaq boxes and seen the same darn 3.5" floppy without front bezel and with the trademark rounded eject button. My unscientific guess is that Compaq had at least 20 part numbers for the same doggone PHYSICAL part. Each part number was generated for a different model and/or different manufacturer, but they were all interchangable among all manner of Compaq desktops and servers. Before its demise, DEC had created the same sort of part numbering monstrosity, compounded by hyper-expensive packaging of spare parts which rotted on the shelf in warehouses. Pity that nobody ever took a broad look at spare parts from the vantage point of 20000 feet... Ben Myers On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 08:20:37 -0500, "HH" wrote: Agreed, except it had nothing to do with the merger, which Compaq had to do in order to survive. HH |
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Ben Myers wrote:
After dealing with DEC's and Compaq's spare parts messes for years, I have to claim that part of the problem with Compaq's on-going viability was simply the total mess of spare parts. Poor management of parts made product builds, logistics, inventories, and who knows what else far more complicated than necessary. Both DEC and Compaq generated more spare parts than they knew what to do with. For example, as I've gone thru several generations of Compaq boxes and seen the same darn 3.5" floppy without front bezel and with the trademark rounded eject button. My unscientific guess is that Compaq had at least 20 part numbers for the same doggone PHYSICAL part. Each part number was generated for a different model and/or different manufacturer, but they were all interchangable among all manner of Compaq desktops and servers. Before its demise, DEC had created the same sort of part numbering monstrosity, compounded by hyper-expensive packaging of spare parts which rotted on the shelf in warehouses. Pity that nobody ever took a broad look at spare parts from the vantage point of 20000 feet... Ben Myers On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 08:20:37 -0500, "HH" wrote: Agreed, except it had nothing to do with the merger, which Compaq had to do in order to survive. HH Anyone who knows how and where to obtain a schematic for this PSU ? Torbjorn. |
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