Dave McGuire wrote:
On May 6, 2009, at 6:54 PM, Keith wrote:
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and at only 450 euro each if you buy 2 or more am
not likely to find
out in a hurry).
Eeesh.
Price of the DTX200 is ?800 for the fist connection to a PC, and then
?450.
The following options are sold between ?100 and ?350:
* multi-frequency
* multi-capacity
* up to 10 diskettes on the same CF card with addressing
* up to 64 diskettes on the same CF card with addressing
Does anyone else think this is highway robbery?
Jeez.
It sounds to me like the suits are trying to recoup their entire
development cost in the first few sales.
And how much did your Z80 thermal bug sell for?
For whatever it's worth, NO, I DON'T think that's robbery, if it does
what they claim. A very low-volume item - which this is - has to have a
very high mark-up, and I don't see "North Pole" anywhere in these guys'
address.
Doc