From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com> Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 07:50:16 -0500 To: cypherpunks@toad.com Subject: SEN_sor
12-4-95. NYPeeper:
"Nearing the $500 Computer for Internet Use."
Acorn is about to introduce a stripped-down machine for Net surfing that sells for about $900. By stripping it of its monitor and hard disk drive, and adding a high-speed modem, Acorn executives say they can hit a retail price less than $500. They plan to ship the Netsurfer by early next year, and are discussing licensing with Oracle and a number of American and Asian companies.
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...
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....
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