On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 5:52 PM, Peter Graf <[email protected]> wrote: > Mark Martin wrote: > > > Do you have a working 68K core with all the support chips? > > The Q68 is a functional system on a finished PCB, actually running QDOS > Classic and Minerva. >
Do you have an estimate of a price range? > > I have spent many hundreds of working hours for the Q68 - for free. > (And by the way, we are not talking some tinkered breadboard, but a > professional PCB design, certainly better than average industry quality.) > > I spent money for tools and prototyping which I do not seek to recover. > You're obviously more than entitled to recuperate your R&D and production costs and make a little for yourself. I just suspect this tiny market may not bear much. From my perspective, Spartan 3E "equivalent" dev boards are less than $100 nowadays, and you have boards like Papilon and the fore-mentioned ArcadeFPGA. That stuff is ubiquitous. I have no doubt your board is better in many respects, but I'm personally not interested in a 200 euro board. Maybe others might be. > > Even if I have to purchase production parts myself (and I'd be glad if > someone else can do that job) I would do it on zero profit basis. > If it's to that stage where you just need to finance a run, I'd be interested in helping participate with that in whatever way you see fit -- I'd rather see something happening today and if that means putting a small investment at some risk to see 0% return for the sake of getting such a board, I'm all ears. > > Given those facts, remarks like "charging for every little thing" are a > way to remove the rest of motivation for QL work I had left. > Oh, please don't mind me. I'm just a putz with little free time and meager ambition. Plus, I'm American, so I'm bound to be full of it. The sad truth is that in just about every other retro community I meagerly participate in, there are lots of open projects. I see so little of that in the QL space, and it saddens me. _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
