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- From: doug.cotton@the-spa.com (Doug Cotton)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: C64 RAM expander (REU/RAMLink/etc)
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 03:41:59 -0500
- Organization: Creative Micro Designs, Inc.
- Message-ID: <doug.cotton-2301960341590001@s103.the-spa.com>
- References: <30FC6439.6E1E@lightside.com> <80@ppse.win-uk.net><doug.cotton-1801961435220001@s117.the-spa.com> <86@ppse.win-uk.net>
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- In article <86@ppse.win-uk.net>, ppieroni@ppse.win-uk.net (Chip Pieroni) wrote:
-
- > >Yep, our price is really high for a product that has and does so much more
- > >than the competition.
- > >
- >
- > That is all very well. BUT, if you purchase your product,
- > you are encouraged to buy more of your stuff. The RamLink comes
- > with a Fast Hard Disk Interface (Which is included in the price
- > I'm sure.) This is only compatible with CMD Hard Disks, so you
- > either buy CMD, or pay for something you won't use.
-
- This particular function, once you have everything else needed to create a
- RAMLink, accounts for very little additional cost. Half of an I/O chip, a
- connector, and a few other components that add up to a couple of trips to
- MacDonalds. When it's reasonably cost-effective to include a feature that
- a LOT of prospective customers for a product will want (and this is indeed
- the case with the parallel HD port), it makes sense to do so -- especially
- in this case, where not doing so would mean almost fully recreating this
- product and costing those who wanted the feature ten times what it cost to
- simply add it into RAMLink.
-
- What about the opposite? RAMLink contains the JiffyDOS Kernal routines,
- saving you from having to buy that part for your computer. Should we make
- everyone who wants a RAMLink AND JiffyDOS buy a special JiffyDOS ROM
- separately?
-
- Seriously, to make a RAMLink substantially cheaper would mean pulling out
- the intellegence, going to a cheap case, chip RAM instead of SIMMs, etc.
- That would make it cheap, but then, it would be no different than the
- other "non-intelligent" RAM devices out there. And, it would no longer be
- a RAM"Link".
-
- In reality, RAMLink is quite a bargain. I've seen somewhat similar
- products for other platforms costing ten to a hundred times as much, and
- providing no more versatility for that platform than RAMLink does for the
- C-64/128 -- and often less, actually.
-
-
- Doug Cotton
- E-mail: doug.cotton@the-spa.com
-
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