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Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would youchoose?
- Subject: Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would youchoose?
- From: "Stephan Schaem" <tthai@mindspring.com>
- Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 21:50:31 -0700
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I think if the design can fit in a 6x3x1 inch format with a color LCD a few people would buy them. (Me included)
My casio PB1000 died, and I'm reduce to my 1liner PB100 .. a pocket 'amiga 500' would be a nice replacement.
"Byron Desnoyers Winmill" <wbdesnoy@acs5.acs.ucalgary.ca> wrote in message news:9j0b67$1jsc$1@nserve1.acs.ucalgary.ca...
> Bob Retelle (bobr1@provide.net) wrote:
> : The question is, who will buy this new $300 box?
>
> Perhaps nobody. We are simply playing with ideas here.
>
> Or, perhaps, somebody. Look at the groups this discussion is taking place in.
> How many people would even consider using these machines in an era of GHz
> computers? After all some of these machines run at a poky 1MHz, and are
> crippled by 8 bit wide words. (My Apple II fits in that category.)
>
> Apparently a large number of us still use those machines. Some of us still
> buy those machines. Sometimes we pick up the original thing (Apples, Atari's,
> Commodores, and so forth) for a bargain. Sometimes we pickup devices which
> have similar, embedded processors. The TI graphing calculators use the Z80
> and 68000 processors. These calculators appear to fit in the $80 to $220
> Canadian range, and I'm willing to bet that there are good margins.
>
> So maybe there is a market. But that still shouldn't prevent us from
> discussing ideas.
>
> Byron.