[Coco] Tandy Hard Disk Controller

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 03 March 2006 15:29, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett at verizon.net>
>>
>>> Heh.  My impression was that they loaded a board and stuck it in a
>>> coco cartridge case, then priced it outragiously high specifically
>>> to discourage the coco from ever being used in business
>>> environment.
>>>
>>> I could be wrong, but that was my take on it at the time, Neil.
>>
>> If you look at the true costs of all of the computer items they
>> sold, my impression was that they made a mint on all of them. I
>> recall store markups
>> of around 90% on some items, i.e. cost was $1.10, sell price was
>> $15. I think they set this high to
>> A) Steer you to other systems
>> B) Make as much as they could.
>
>I think B rather than A.  Look at something as simple as an RS232
>ribbon cable.  They sold the cable for about $5 and the conectors
>were about $3 apiece.  The already assembled cable hanging right
>next to them was $35.00. I mean really, just how hard was it to
>put those crimp-ons on the ends of the cable?  :-)
>
It will require complete silence while the feat is accomplished.  Oh 
wait, thats a cdw commercial... :)

>bill
>
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