4 Jan
2010
4 Jan
'10
5:51 p.m.
--- On Mon, 1/4/10, William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com> wrote:
Yeah, and besides, Commodore knew at this point that if people wanted a feature in their
computers badly enough, they'd solder it in themselves. At least Commodore was good at
giving users the framework and the information they needed to do it. For example, look how
easy it is to add RS-232 to a C64. All you need is an inverter and some level shifters.
The routines are already in ROM to allow that to work.
Also, how many people actually *bought* the bridgeboard, anyway? I have seen dozens of
2000's, but I've never once seen a PC bridgeboard.
-Ian
This kind of
thing makes me
insane. I would have gladly paid another
$1, or even $10, had they just put the parts on
the
board.
Keep in mind that catering to the tiny majority of people
like
yourself really throws a wrench in the manufacturing
engineering
works. For every component of a computer there is the
obvious cost of
the piece, but from there one can find *dozens* of little
extra (and
sometimes not so little) costs associated with it -
everything from
extra inventory costs to the extra toilet paper in the
bathroom.
Having semicustom builds, like including the connectors in
this
example,*really* amplifies things.