Re: A86: Asm Questions that have been building up :)
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Re: A86: Asm Questions that have been building up :)
well the more calcs the make the more it spreads out the programming cost of
the average of all the calcs made and rom updates dont take as long as
writing the original so the more calcs they make the more profit they get
and a bigger profit for each until its basically just you paying 117 dollars
or so more than it cost to put it together. but its worth it for a mini game
machine which is programmable...and i guess also cuz of the math stuff ;)
>I can field this one. the Z80 chip costs approximately 25 cents to make.
>figure TI pays max 75 cents for them, in bulk. the LCD isn't even that
>expensive, i dont know exactly though. But, boys and girls, can you say
>the word, "profit"? I knew you could. We live in a free market economy,
>and TI wants their fair share of the buck. Aside from that, I imagine that
>given the primitive and complicated nature of assembler for the Z80,
>programming the ROMS for the various calcs that have them must have been a
>difficult, expensive task. and the $120 price tag on each 86 pays for a
>little bit fo that.
>
>Robby Gutmann
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