Hopefully someone who knows what I'm talking about will chime in, but there was a CEO of a small consumer electronics company who was infamous for walking around the labs and randomly removing parts from designs on the breadboard. If the device still worked, well that's one less part that was needed. Makes for a cheap, if extremely fragile device.
Wish I could remember the guy's name though.
https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/industrial/boa...
What a truly awful approach to saving money. Just mislead the customer and have them pay the price associated with that. Good thing we have consumer protection laws now.
Muntz no. Should be filed in the same can as Sinclair. Rumour has it that the vast majority of really defective transistors (rather than just the moderately defective ones he shipped) were used as hard core under Sinclair's drive
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