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To: rudedog who wrote (68916)	11/20/1998 7:20:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

rudedog, Rod Cannion and the other ex-TI folks who started COMPAQ came from the military systems group. The original COMPAQ portables were built with mil-spec components, they were engineered from the ground up for quality. Everything in them was designed for ruggedness and reliability (this philosophy was what eventually cost Cannion his job, when the rest of the industry had gone to 'erector set' components and CPQ's costs got out of line). The box was literally held together with erector set (or a reasonable facsimile thereof) components. I know because I worked on them. I am not impuning the quality of the product. Erector sets are quite strong compared to the plastic components used in modern laptops. Scumbria