Date   : Thu, 05 Aug 2004 22:35:03 +0100
From   : Sprow <info@...>
Subject: Re: GoMMC cards

In article <00b001c47b2f$ad531880$9780a8c0@...>,
   Andrew Chesterton <andrew.chesterton@...> wrote:

> >>But at some stage you will run out of cards  -  when you do run out,
> >>of parts, will you then provide us with the schematic? 
> >
> >How many hints do you need, to understand that none of this is
> >ever going to happen ? Why do you even expect it to ?
>
> I can understand why Fiaz is asking for schematics.
> You have designed a really useful addition to the BBC which you are 
> offering
> for sale at a not insignificant cost that you are flatly refusing to 
> support now or in the future.

Indeed John has, and I'm sure it took a not insignificant amount of his time
working on it.
It's worth bearing in mind that when you're buying small quantities of
things you don't get PC-box-shifter prices, for example the tooling setup
charges for PCBs are around £75 so if you only expect to sell 10 of
something then each is £7.50 dearer than just adding up the cost of the
components from Farnell. They also need assembling, but that's another
matter.

> You are also refusing to release the design into the public domain to allow
> people to support it themselves or in Fiaz's case continue the production
> run, which you obviously don't want to do.

I'd expect the ADFS & DFS patches are all you'll ever need, and that perhaps
there may be scope in a year or so for John to have enough spare time to
kick off another small batch.

I know that the Elk/Master ROM cartridges I had made up recently didn't
quite break even, but I'm still open to anyone wanting to order some more...
Sprow.