Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!xanth!ames!apple!sun-barr!rutgers!njin!limonce From: limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Wish I had an Amiga 1500 Message-ID: Date: 8 Jul 89 17:03:00 GMT References: <20219@cup.portal.com> Organization: Drew University/NJIN Lines: 22 This was discussed earlier. The designer (Dave Haynie) posted an interesting message where he costed the whole thing out and the difference in price was about $50-$100. That's the difference that the customer would see. The reason for this is that the IBM slots use the Amiga's power supply (P/Ss are very expensive when compared to other parts of the computer) and has no intelligence (no costly chips, etc; the connectors are basically "there" and all the pin-1's are connected, all the pin-2's are connected, etc). All the logic and expensive parts are on the bridgeboard. So, the cost is really in the connectors and the extra time it takes the machine to place them and connect them. It is a good idea, but when you cost it out it isn't at practical as we'd all hope for. Sorry that the news wasn't better! -Tom -- Tom Limoncelli -- tlimonce@drunivac.Bitnet -- limonce@pilot.njin.net Drew University -- Box 1060, Madison, NJ -- 201-408-5389 Standard Disclaimer: I am not the mouth-piece of Drew University "DEC's All-In-1 isn't completely useless, but it's a nice attempt."