[Coco] Re: [Color Computer] Is this a discussion about a new Coco?

[Mark Marlette]

At 06:04 PM 4/18/2005, you wrote:

Thanks Kevin, not water in the basement but lots of computers and CoCo 
hardware! :)

I make the dinners or not.... Live alone, for the most part. My son is 21 
and is going to finish his law enforcement degree this June.


>Hi,
>
>Mark Marlette wrote:
>>At 10:36 AM 4/18/2005, you wrote:
>>I'll take as many of the SuperBoard's that you can make for under $100, 
>>that includes all of the options, including the Ethernet. The Ethernet 
>>chip alone costs well over $65 and that doesn't include the support 
>>chips. Then add in the cost of the PCB board, CPLDs which are in the 
>>$8-11 range each which there are 4-6 of them on the board.  As you can 
>>see without evening spending a whole a lot of time on it that the price 
>>goes up very fast. You must have been a sleep that day in Business 
>>Economics. Prove me wrong and send me the product. You can't. It is 
>>easier for you to sit back and do nothing but critique other peoples work 
>>and say it is too expensive.
>>
>>Mark
>>Cloud-9
>>
>>>$350 - $450 for something that should cost less than $100 in parts is
>>>why I won't be interested.  It does sound like it will be a pretty
>>>complete solution though.
>         Isn't the cost of getting a PC board done a very big chunk of the 
> total cost? Yes you might get the chips for $100 but that just gets you a 
> pile of chips. I have, on occasion, looked at the hardware on Cloud-9. It 
> is all commercial quality-looking stuff. Like you might buy in a store. 
> That ain't cheap. You could probably hack something together with a 
> breadboard but what would that look like?
>
>         And I'm sorry Mark, ... but I sometimes have these nightmares. 
> They go something like this:
>
>It's a dark, damp basement. Stacks of vintage computer parts are 
>everywhere. The sound of water dripping occasionally breaks the 
>silence.  The smell of rosin core solder permeates the air. A light is 
>visible in one corner. A man sits at a table. He is hunched over a circuit 
>board. In one hand is a soldering iron, solder in the other. He peers 
>through a magnifying glass at the circuit board. Beads of sweat glisten on 
>his forehead. As he prepares to make another connection, a frantic voice 
>breaks his concentration, "Mark, dinner is getting cold!". Just one more 
>connection, he thinks to himself.
>
>At this point I wake up gasping for air.
>
>                                         kevin
>
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