26 Mar
1999
26 Mar
'99
6:53 a.m.
At 09:28 AM 3/24/99 -0500, Tim wrote:
That, tech support, and product liability.
A year or so ago I looked at what it would cost to make my "TIMSAI" IMSAI
clone into a commercial product. Street price, I calculated, would be about
$2000, and most of that was in the metalworking. There was only about $30
in semiconductors in the whole unit (and that included 256K SRAM and an
IDE/floppy controller).
That's exactly why people don't build kits any more. The price so the
individual parts is higher than the cost of the commercaily assembled
finished product. You need to find a surplus case that you can use. That