As an aside, I worked on fixing computers way back when. Somewhere along the line (maybe late 80s, early 90s) Compaq started using these cheap aluminum screws to hold together the computer case and hard drive mounts and motherboard to the chassis. Those cheap screws would get stripped very easily. Many a day, I would curse Compaq. But then, later, it seemed like all the manufacturers turned to cheaper and cheaper quality parts.

One story I remember reading was about the high quality and robustness of Compaq hardware. [Web search sucks these days so google and bing can't find the story]

The story goes that the floppy disk drive for Compaq computers was rated for a very high number of floppy disk insertions and ejections. More insertions/ejections than were possible unless one was doing nothing but inserting and ejecting floppy disks all the time.

So the exec selected a lower-rated floppy disk drive, saving a bunch of money.