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- From: pierson@ggone.enet.dec.com (Dave Pierson)
- Subject: Re: Possible to upgrade PC from FCC Class B to A?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.232819.3903@engage.pko.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <1992Nov16.192730.23028@cbfsb.cb.att.com> <1992Nov16.213442.3829@julian.uwo.ca>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 23:19:53 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.213442.3829@julian.uwo.ca>,
- wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith) writes, in part:
-
- >Why bother? I mean, does the FCC actually police that kind of thing?
- Yes. They have seized "millions and millions" of units and taken them
- off the marketplace.
-
- >How many PC's are sold in warehouse and deptartment stores now? Are
- Many. FCC polices where it can.
-
- >they class A? Just how does the FCC get involved with the sale of
- I THINK spmepnes got it backwards. Class A is noisier, Class B is
- quieter.
-
- >electronic equipment?
- If it has "high speed" clock, they get to regulate it. They have for
- years (about 10...) They responded to a rising tide of consumer and RF
- spectrum users about rfi from the large number of "digital" devices.
- They get to police radiators (of RF...)
-
- > Like, is it illegal to sell something that
- >doesn't have an FCC Class? How many mom & pop computer stores are
- You betcha. Practically, they go after "big" names, but they do seize,
- they do destroy.
-
- >building pc's from the case up?
- Nope, they probably slide by. Like speeding laws, some get caught,
- some get by.
-
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- Digital Equipment Corporation |the opinions, my own.
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