[Trevor]

"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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There was a time when dealers (mostly the mail order houses) would well
an OEM copy of Windows by throwing a defunct disk drive or graphics card
into the package on the basis that they were selling it along with parts
to build a computer.

One time I went that route, and the qualifying hardware was a highly
obsolete and tiny CPU fan.

Which was fine then, but most dealers won't do that any more so I can only
assume Microsoft cracked down on them and threatened their supply.

Trevor.