From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 31 08:09:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA12143 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 08:09:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [165.254.13.209]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA12128 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 08:09:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from ppp-082.etinc.com (ppp-082.etinc.com [204.141.95.142]) by etinc.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA16772; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 11:08:35 -0500 Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 11:08:35 -0500 Message-Id: <199601311608.LAA16772@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Michael Smith From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Subject: Re: Watchdog timers (was: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >Joe Greco stands accused of saying: >> >> Actually, besides this being very ugly, I was referring to building >> production models, not prototypes... I need about six. :-) Since I don't >> have the facilities here to do any sort of PC boards, that leaves me with >> the ugly option of using PC prototyping cards (or other "build-n-go" >> solutions). All of which are expensive. > >I can do PCBs. The real problem being that even if I sell one to >everyone here, I still won't be competing pricewise with a large >manufacturer. At a guess, I'd say that a bare board (no parts) would >come to ~$30 if I were to do 10 or more. (This is assuming that there >was very little actually on the board). If this is desirable and nobody's >got anything more attractive, I guess I can come up with something. > >Depending on what parts were required, I'd guess at ~$60 or so (assembled). >(My guess is a GAL and an 8254 would be the order of the day). > >> Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Ours are $139 Q5....figure out the cost recovery and you'd have to need a hundred to break even......I dont even market them 'cause theres no margin at that price. db ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com Synchronous Communications Cards and Routers For Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25 for BSD/OS, FreeBSD and LINUX