Worst design decisions?

Sat Sep 20 02:47:03 UTC 2003

Frank wrote:

>On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 00:43, Matt wrote:
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>>Hello all,
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>>Was doing some upgrades on a UBR7246 (to a VXR), and I got to thinking 
>>about short sighted design considerations.  I was curious if any of you 
>>had some pet peeves from a design perspective to rant about.  I'll start 
>>with a couple.
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>the orginal GSR blanks came without handles. They were also put in tight
>as ***. For days after, your fingers would have the imprints of the
>little screws on them. I once use my socks to protect my fingers when I
>was pulling them out.
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>Frank
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You grabbed another one from that chassis I hadn't considered right away 
(although I do now).  Yes, that was extremely annoying - I snapped a 
screw once on an old 5800 chassis with the same design flaw.