MFM floppy and HD emulator DREM

[Guy Sotomayor Jr]

> On Oct 17, 2016, at 9:58 AM, js at cimmeri.com wrote:
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> On 10/17/2016 11:18 AM, Peter Cetinski wrote:
>>> On Oct 17, 2016, at 11:58 AM, emanuel stiebler<emu at e-bbes.com>  wrote:
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>>> Hi all,
>>> anybody has any experience with that:
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>>> http://www.drem.info/
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>>> ?
>> Yes, I'm currently in the process of getting the DREM working with a Tandy 6000 and Xenix.  ...
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> About $250?   Wish it were half that.  Seems like they could sell more than twice as many at half the price, and more than 4 times as many at 1/4th the price.

Really?  Come on guys, this stuff costs $$’s to produce and they may actually want to make some profit.  If you’re doing small volume stuff (10’s-100’s vs 100,000’s - 1,000,000’s) it’s going to be a bit pricey.  Frankly, to get the price to drop to half ($125), you’d probably have to get 10x-100x quantity increase.  I know because I face the same thing when trying to produce my boards.  Assembly will typically double the cost of the board + components.

I’ll likely be getting at least 3 of them (1 for the IBM 3174 and 2 for my Symbolics 3640 and possible another 2 for my other Symbolics 3640).

TTFN - Guy