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Old Dec 31, 2009 | 11:08 am
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Loren Pechtel
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Originally Posted by alanR
I can't believe a manufacturer would sell a system that requires a technician to modify it to make it work in a real world environment. If it does then it needs to be sent back to the manufacturer making it pretty clear that until they get it fixed they wouldn't get another penny of government money.

Still that's coming from someone who expects devices to work on a day in day out basis with a minimum of maintenance beyond replacing replaceable parts
I suspect it was a case of "we need this *NOW*"--and the company ships something that's not ready for deployment.
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