#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
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.