Re: What's Next for the Apple II?

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Bill Garber replied:

>"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
>20040120144959.22644.00000381@mb-m18.aol.com">news:20040120144959.22644.00000381@mb-m18.aol.com...
>: Bill Garber wrote:
>:
>: <snip>
>:
>: >I am not applying the CF socket
>: >to the card as the adapters are cheaper than
>: >I can provide one for. I have seen these for
>: >as little as $20.
>:
>: You might want to check with Richard about his source--
>: I'd be surprosed if the CF socket was more than $2.
>
>Cost of part is not in question. Cost of
>having them soldered on outside is. ;-)

If it's mounted to a PC board, wave-soldering gets
everything at the same time.  The only extra cost is
part insertion.

If it's mounted remote from the board--a likely case--then
it would probably require another connector and a flexible
cable, at slightly more cost.

It's interesting how things go up in cost by a factor of
ten as the quantities get down under 100,000.  ;-)

-michael

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