How do you know what the price is when it hasn't been released yet? <puzzled
look>
Tony.
> Date: Tue 2-Apr-2002 12:54
> To: newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net (Tony Kan)
> From: jswitte_at_bloomington.in.us (No Name)
> Subject: RE: [NTLK] Cost of ATA Support
> > It seems to be slow (access times) and you can only use 4 megs
> unless
> > you
> > pay for the drivers. What gets me is the cost of the drivers, about
> 50
> > USD
> > if I did the conversion right from EU to $. I hope I am wrong on
> that.
>
> $50 !! I hope you mean that seems cheap, not that it seems
> expensive. $50 seems very cheap to me. Consider that if the Newton
> were still alive, and by some miracle Apple had not done there own
> ATA drivers by now, and some third-party company did what Paul did
> (probably with about a third as much work because they'd be able to
> muscle internal information out of Apple), they'd probably charge at
> *least* $100 (99.95 actually ;-) for it. True, the price comes out
> to about $70 (75Eu) for an multiple-Newton license with the API, but
> I still consider that to be not much, considering that Paul's been
> working on this for at least a year, killed two Newton's in the
> process (well, probbaly not *completely* killed, but certainly not
> revivable without technology that we don't have like a external
> flasher..)
>
> Way to go Paul, Jim
>
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