[Coco] Tandy Hard Disk Controller

[Bill Gunshannon]

>

> ----- 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?  :-)

bill

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