14 Oct
2013
14 Oct
'13
2:45 p.m.
On Oct 14, 2013, at 5:25 PM, Jules Richardson <jules.richardson99 at gmail.com>
wrote:
In other words, what seems to be the later machine has
them, and the earlier one doesn't. Possibly cases from different plants, where one had
changed their tooling and one hadn't? Or maybe the "later" machine is
actually an earlier build but has had a system board replacement (with the date sticker
being the date of repair)?
It doesn't directly, thoroughly answer your question, but this story from
Andy Hertzfeld's folklore.org does at least give some partial detail (for
one thing, it sounds like they gradually removed them until they got the
boot altogether, presumably at some date, though your "different factory"
theory sounds quite likely as well):
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Signing_Party.txt
- Dave