[Coco] Too much of nothing...

[James C. Hrubik, Sr.]

This is getting out of hand.  Maybe it's a good thing I'm not on the 
Yahoo! list.  Sounds like a Yahoo! to me.


On Monday, April 18, 2005, at 06:45  PM, James Diffendaffer wrote:

> You must have been asleep in Business Economics.  There isn't enough
> of a CoCo market to waste building a business on.  It's not like they
> are making new CoCo's.  Your trying to turn a hobby into a business...
> which is ok but don't claim it's more than it is.
>
> I used to own a company that built hardware for the Amiga, some of
> which I designed, I know what I'm talking about.  We were selling more
> hardware in a week that Cloud-9 has sold since it was started.
> A.I.R. sold over $750,000 worth of product (1 product) in the first 6
> months and it took us over half of that time just to build up
> manufacturing ability and a dealer network.  At the time I sold out we
> were doing about $90,000 per month and had 4(?) products.
>
> BTW, we were paying under $2/board on a circuit board about half the
> size this IDE/USB board would be.
>
> You want to use PLDs so people can't copy your design.  I want to
> design something someone can download the design, print their own
> circuit board and use off the shelf parts on.  Totally different goal.
>  If I wanted to make my life easier I'd use the PLD and forget having
> to worry about how to fit all the parts in such a small space.
>
> For something like the Superboard I'd use a larger PLD instead of
> multiple small PLDs since it will be smaller for about the same price.
>
> And is this business you've been running as a hobby paying your bills?
>  Do you have another job?
>   If you had to live off of Cloud-9 you'd starve and if
> you died would the company be around to take care of your customers
> tomorrow?


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