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#A1000 expan

    07-Jun-89 23:53:13
Sb: #52274-#A1000 expan
Fm: Rick Stevens 75006,1355
To: Syndesis 76004,1763
We haven't decided to bring one to market. We hear lots of "God, yes! Do it!" responses. But, it's not simply extending the bus and adding connectors. The timing on the A1000 bus is different slightly, and not all A1000s are built the same. We have to take all that into account. And just how big is the market. Remember, it's expensive to design, tool, build, market, and support any hardware item. If we spend, say, $100,000 to develop the thing, can we sell enough of them to recoup our NRE costs and make a decent profit? If not, we have to charge more for the box, which would reduce the market even more. We're working on it. You know how business is. It takes money to make money, but it also takes a decent market to generate those revenues.