alt Hacker NewsI worked at 3Com in the mid 1980's. We had a smart guy (Stanford grad) working in manufacturing that was doing numerical analysis on failure rates and product returns. His analysis showed that the 3c50x PC Ethernet cards almost never failed and built a case for offering a lifetime warranty. He calculated that it would cost the company almost nothing to offer the warranty.
They were high-quality cards and the lifetime warranty proved to be very popular.
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usedtobegood • today at 4:55 AM
I remember changing the jumpers on the board to allow it to enter “promiscuous mode”
That’s interesting, thank you for they tidbit! Do you have any other stories? Personally I loved the pcmcia cards but mostly because drivers were included from 98se, so in the early 00’s my first job at a of repair shop that was an easy way to get a computer online/networked.
Outside that, I think I missed everything though I have memories of another company that merged into 3x in, xircom? Before they were acquired again.