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From: tom@iconsys.UUCP (Tom Kimpton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MPW target market & usage
Message-ID: <408@iconsys.UUCP>
Date: 25 Oct 89 22:47:48 GMT
References: <16255@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <35785@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: tom@iconsys.UUCP (Tom Kimpton)
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In article <35785@apple.Apple.COM> keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin) writes:
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>I'd like to make one other comment about the price of MPW. Almost the entire
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>price of MPW is for covering the cost of document duplication. APDA tries to do
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>a classy job with this, and it costs them a lot of money. The large amount of 
>documentation adds to the heavy cost.
>
Say whutt???

Not having MPW, and not knowing how much documentation it has,
I did a ballpark figure (MPW C w/SADE):

	1000 pages * $.05/page = $50
	10 binders * $4/binder = $40
	20 disks * $5/disk     = $100
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				 $190

Scale up for more pages, scale down for: cheaper (and/or fewer) binders,
cheaper duplication (manual & software), fewer disks.

I think I remember APDA quoting $475 for this combo.

Just an observation.

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