17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
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....