Some time ago, I told the story of the time the development manager for Windows 95 bought one copy of every PC program in the Egghead Software store.I learned that in addition to stunning the store manager, this creative operation almost didn't work: The store's cash register crashed whenever the total exceeded $10,000. Because like, c'mon, who would buy $10,000 of stuff by just walking into a store? If you're going to buy that much stuff, you would use a purchase order, right?The order had to be broken up into chunks so that each chunk totaled less than $10,000.Related reading: What were the tax consequences of letting Windows 95 team members keep a piece of software as long as they tested it? Windows 95 crashes a cash register.