Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would youchoose?

[Bob Retelle <bobr1@provide.net>]

On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 16:09:49 +0000 (UTC), Stephen Shaw
<xstephenx@apple2.org.za> wrote:


>
>I think you are missing the point.

Not at all.  The "point" was to try to make a "new" computer for $300.

MY point is that NO ONE WILL BUY ONE if it has half the features and
runs at one tenth the speed of a comparably priced system ALREADY on
the market.

> Rolls Royce still make cars to a standard
>not to a price. Kit cars (usually VW based) are still available.

And Rolls Royce has been in financial trouble for quite a while now.

And "kit cars" cost a ton of money, and hardly ever work right.

You can ride to the Space Station if you have enough millions.

But can you build an obsolete hackers' computer for only $300?


> I think a "kit
>computer" is a nice niche idea. I certainly subscribe to the idea behind it.

Certainly, you can find something to fill almost any niche, if price
is no object.

I always lusted after a KIM-1, even though it cost more than our $300
price point,  and did very little.   Want to guess how many were
actually sold?


BobR