[44661] in Cypherpunks
Re: SEN_sor
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (attila)
Mon Dec 4 18:11:45 1995
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 21:13:39 +0000 (GMT)
From: attila <attila@primenet.com>
To: Ed Carp <ecarp@netcom.com>
Cc: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199512041905.NAA02443@khijol>
On Mon, 4 Dec 1995, Ed Carp wrote:
>
> Oh, hell, even I can do *that*. Let's see ... motherboard, $100.
> Floppy drive and controller, $50. 14.4KB modem, $50. Case and power
> supply, another $50 or so. $250 profit.
>
> What's so tough about that? Not a bad deal for Acorn, if you ask me.
> Hell, maybe I'll go into business making the damned things for that
> kind of profit margin...
>
actually, you need to produce it in volume for $50 to $62.50 in
order to afford the overhead, sales effort, service effort, advertising,
and that good stuff.
other than the floppy drive, I can make it for less than $50 in
exportd cost from HingKong with a 486-33 knockoff. Of course, you will
charge the cusotmer extra for the 256M extra memory....
