From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 31 10:24:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA24752 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 10:24:02 -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 KAA24721 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 10:23:59 -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 NAA17067; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 13:22:08 -0500 Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 13:22:08 -0500 Message-Id: <199601311822.NAA17067@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: Joe Greco 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 >> >Sorry, when you first announced it, it was $195 qty 1. >> > >> >This is still really a little more than I'd like to pay. I realize it costs >> >you to build these things and I'm not faulting you for it, I'm just saying >> >that it is not worth that much to me. >> >> Doesnt matter...dont make enough on it to really care, even at 195. But i >> find it >> interesting that someone would be willing to spend the time to build one if >> they only needed a handful. You've already spent more on time thinking about >> it then you'll save! > >At $169, to purchase a dozen would cost me $2028. Unlike you, I am not >operating a revenue-generating organization, and $2028 is an appreciable >chunk of one of my paychecks, which is ultimately where the money would >come from. Ok...Ok...all I was saying was that if you build it yourself it will cost $50. and you cant design and manufacture 10 cards for the difference. Have a beer or something and relax! Plus at $100/hr or so (I hope you value your time at least that much), its a lot more than 2000. Its the old opportunity cost issue.....if you have nothing else to do then your time is valueless....but if you could be doing some other productive task then the opportunity cost is the value of what you wont be doing while you do it. If I were selling 50,000 cards a month like SMC maybe i could sell them for $2. above cost.....but (fortunately for my sanity) there isnt quite the same market for watchdog timers. dennis ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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