My comment about becoming rich was a little tongue in cheek. I like the idea of building new components/machines. I have often thought about doing the same thing with older machines. Except not selling them and not really manufacturing them either. I would like to implement the ic's ina manner than can be easily replicated on an FPGA. I have the doc's to do the original mac this way, and it wouldn't be impossible to do. The big hurdle is the copyright on the rom images. Those won't go away.
I worry about the day when the docs don't exist and all these wonderful computers are dead. But back to the topic at hand. The OP only mentioned refurbishing old iMacs. You're suggesting opening up to a general repair house, not a bad idea, but a different business with different problems. Refurbishing has serious supply chain problems. If he is doing this as a side "hobby" business, where he doesn't care if he makes enough to live, than that's cool. Fix em as you get them and then sell them. People have been doing this with cars for a long time. Its a good way to make some extra cash. I do side repair jobs for people on pcs or what ever. I get a lot of free cookies this way. But I also have a full time job as an embedded systems designer. The big problem is if you are doing this for your only income you need to make enough money off of each sale to sustain you through a period when you can't find machines to rebuild. Or when prices of used machines artificially go up for some reason. Plus there are some companies out there that do this already. The market is pretty well saturated. Even they have problems getting machines. I applaud his initiative, and his desire to keep a product that I really enjoy alive. I just question on weather or not he can make a full time business out of it. > Who cares about being rich? If he has a passion for what he's doing, > all he needs to do is charge enough to break even counting the costs > of utilities and whatever wage he has assigned himself. I myself have > > -- > Best Regards, > > John Musbach > -- Robert Pangrazio -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
