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- From: root@wombat.hanse.de (Bernd "Bernie" Meyer)
- Subject: Re: Motorola pricelist (was RE: CPU MHz in A1200+)
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- Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 18:40:19 GMT
-
- crkuntz@sgiis4.sdrc.com (Shane Kuntz) writes:
-
- > I would also recommend that whichever processor they go with be on the
- > expansion board. When you wanted to upgrade you trade in your old board
- > and buy the new one minus the trade up offer. This would benefit users,
- > because the upgrade path would be cheaper with the trade up and it would
- > benefit AT because they would have a stock of processor boards they could
- > throw into new machines (eliminating manufacturing of new processor boards
- > every time) and offer them at a discount.
-
- There is two problems with this approach:
-
- a) Prices drop through the floor REAL FAST. Since 1990, I have quite often
- spent about $700 on a PC processor board. This got me the "near the top
- of the line board", any year. Usually, the resale value of my old board
- was about $100 or $150. In the private market, without any administration,
- storage or markup costs.
- Now think about AT buying back old CPU boards --- they have to pay all
- those costs, so all you will probably get for your old board, even if
- it was pretty recent, is in the $50 to $100 ballpark. Which really isn't
- worth the bother.
- Also, many of these old CPU modules would never be sold again --- would you
- buy a 286 motherboard these days? Not in a time where you have to pay to
- have them disposed properly....
-
- b) The PC world has been doing exactly that for quite some time. The "processor
- card" is called a motherboard, but up until recently, a processor card
- plus a bus was all it was. Nowadays, harddisk and floppy interfaces are
- included, as are standard IO ports. But that's a pretty new development.
-
- Bernie
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