Andy Ruhl wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Michael J. Miller Jr. wrote:
> 
> > When I worked at Sun as a contractor in the early 90's they did
> > this to all their internal machines as well.  Rumors ran rampant
> > that a lot of people were taking the old systems home instead of
> > turning them in because of this.
> >
> > I suspect a fair number of the older systems still floating around out
> > there came from Sun originally.
> 
> Pardon my asking, but what does this accomplish? Why not just smash the
> hard drive? Doesn't make sense...

Trouble is Sun (or whoever made the system) keep getting calls into
their support group asking why xyz doesn't run on the ancient system
the've got....

	David