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From: mac18@cus.cam.ac.uk (Sparky)
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 1994 05:46:45 -0600
Reply-To: nexus-gaia@indial1.io.com
To: Multiple recipients of list <nexus-gaia@indial1.io.com>
Subject: More E-Cafe
Well I went along to the careers service today to try and gain
some much needed buisiness knowledge. He didn't laugh at the idea and
thought it was interesting and refeered me on to the Enterprise Agency.
Unfortunatly I can't get an interview with them until the 20th of April,
sigh. But they gave me lots of glossy booklets to read.
I've compiled a little list of Income and Expenditure using rough
guesses and some knowledge from a friend who runs a MUD commercially. This
is what I get (all in GB pounds)
OUT:
STARTUP:
Router 2500
Demon Leased 64k line 1000
BT leased line 900
Terminals (16 @ 50 each) 800
PC 486/66 200Mb SVGA (or sim) 1500
Ethernet 200
Wiring 100
Chairs tables etc 800
Total 7800
YEARLY:
Demon line 4800
Rent "8000 ?
Wages 10000
Elec/Heating 2000
Maintainance 2500
Bt leased line ?
Total "29800
IN:
YEARLY:
These are total guesses, mainly worked out at what would be
needed to balance the cost. Whether theyre realistic or not
is up for debate.
16 terms @ 6 hrs/day @ 50p/hr 17520
100 accounts @ 10/month 12000
Total 29520
(This works out at an average of 1 hr a day per account
which is roughly another 30 quid a month on top of the
monthly cost of the account)
Other Income:
Convenience Food (nothing cooked, just sandwiches, coke
chocolate etc) ????
Maybe a pinball machine etc ?????
Hire to computer societies/schools/competitions/advertising
I'm particularly interested in how I could bring advertising into it. As
you can see the figures are close and I've probably forgotton loads.
Whether my usage figures are realistic I can't really say, maybe some
of you know better than me? I have an intention to get in touch with demon
and suggest investment to them. It is after all a natural extension of their
service and they may reduce their connection fees. I'm probably going to try
and set up the thing with a second hand sun rather than a PC, anyone
know what the prices are for these things over here?
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