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From: umcarls9@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Charles Carlson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: SE/30 -> 32 bit clean ROMS?
Message-ID: <1990Oct18.180629.14135@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 18 Oct 90 18:06:29 GMT
References: <2494@ux.acs.umn.edu>
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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In article <2494@ux.acs.umn.edu> dhoyt@vw.acs.umn.edu writes:
>  $25 is the materials cost.  The R&D costs are much larger and must be billed
>accordingly.  Apple also provides upgrades to the OS free of charge.  Apple
>adds this cost and other costs of business to all the products they sell,
>including ROMs.

Maybe $25 was a little conservative, but I did say I thought $50 was fair.
After all, in a Mac II you have 4 ROMS, those ROMS shouldn't cost Apple more
than $4/each, especially in the quantities they would be buying.  
I don't know how much R&D is involved, but probably not a heckuva lot!  
remember, you've already PAID for the R&D that you have now, I'm sure it
didn't, comparatively anyways, cost Apple that much more to fix them up to
be 32 bit clean <what all would be involved there, anyone?>.  Then you
ammoratise <sp?> that over several thousand systems and it isn't all that
much.   I think upgrades for Amiga and ST ROMS are only around $50.

Charles