#Techni-Soft delivery?
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As for pricing, remember the following:
1. There are about 150,000 Amigas vs. about 5,000,000 I.B.M.s
2. Market penetration for a hardware product ranges from 3% (fair)
to 9% (outstanding)
3. A manufacturer should expect to sell about 7,500 Amiga add-ons
vs. 250,000 for an I.B.M.
4. The leading 1 MEG add-on board for the I.B.M. (Intel AboveBoard
with 1 Meg installed) retails for $699.00, yet the leading 1 MEG
add-on board for the Amiga (the C Ltd. aMEGA Board, which has more
components than the Intel and a case for external mounting which
is not needed on the Intel because it is an internal board) has
a suggested retail of only $549.00
E.J. Lippert II
C Ltd.
Wichita, KS
(316) 267-6321
I wouldn't buy an Intel Aboveboard myself; far too expensive. I paid, as I
recall, about $150 for a 512K expansion board by a "clone" company whose name I
forget. Works flawlessly so far (about six months or more.) One should recall
that expanding a PC above 640K involves additional messy circuitry. Such an
artificial barrier doesn't exist in the Amiga. In any case, I question whether
every clone maker expects to sell 250,000 pieces in the crowded IBM market. All
things considered, the ratio of hardware makers to Amiga owners is probably far
lower than IBM hardware makers to IBM PC owners. Thus more market exists (right
now), relatively, and perhaps in absolute terms, since many PC owners already
have all the memory they need, but not Amiga owners.