[ARC5] 70+ year old errors

[J. Forster]

Good for them.

YMMV,

-John

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> On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, J. Forster wrote:
>
>> "Shipping" unfinished stuff was/is very common.
>>
>> I consulted for a smallish local company that made high end computer
>> graphics hardware.... $100,000+ in 1975 dollars. Near the end of every
>> month, they would put nearly empty chassis into shipping boxes and onto
>> the loading dock...  just to 'meet the numbers'.
>>
> That's something like a certain computer company that would load as
> much product as they could onto trucks and for one day drive them
> around the city.  Then bring them back and unload the trucks and
> resume normal activity.  The reason was that the state had an inventory
> tax, based on the inventory you had in-house on that one certain day
> a year.
>
>