[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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