[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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