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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: wbdesnoy@acs5.acs.ucalgary.ca (Byron Desnoyers Winmill)
- Date: 17 Jul 2001 03:24:55 GMT
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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.