On (21 Jan 95) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... > Date: Sat, 21 Jan 1995 11:48:49 GMT > From: "Brian Gaff Sam Dept." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I have no wish to suggest Bob will not honour orders, here are > my thoughts, so you know what I meant, sorry if I gave a > misleading impression. > Sam stock etc are in WAles, Bob is not. Nobody is in WAles but > rental of unit needs to be paid. > Bob will need to get someone to put SAMs together. I could be bribed into it but I think a move to Wales would not be finacialy worth while (for me;-) Plus from what I've heard Bob wouldn't make a good employer... > Uf it were me, I think I'd do this. Remember this is a business > thought, not a Bob one! :-) > How many SAMs could we possibly sell? Maybe 1000 if pushed (I > think a lot less, but I am being generous) Look at Stock. Take > enough parts for what I could sell, plus some for Spares of > things like keyboards and ASICs, cases etc. Attempt to sell rest > of stock to get money to finance building some SAMs. Assuming he's got ALL the parts required and just needs to pay SOMEONE to put 'em together, then if I were him I'd LEARN to solder and build 'em myself! It ain't that difficult;-) > Move stock to somewhere I can afford (Bobs place?) Tricle along > as before. > Now if SAM2 ever gets off the ground, it would need finance. I > pass on this! What the heck is this SAM2? If there was to be a new version I'd hope it didn't pass ALL ram access via the ASIC as that's the thing that limits the SAM to 6MHz! Maybe a z180 with the ASIC ram mapped to the bottom 64k of z180 address space and the rest of the address space as independant z180 RAM. On power-up it'd default to SAM mode and only access normal SAM ram via the ASIC, but it could also change and map the other ram in place of the ASIC's RAM.... Or one could go the whole hog and use a z280 and implement a full unix as an alternate to the power-up SAM mode ;-) Though do we really need it? I don't think so, there's plenty of other machines available that'll provide more advanced features and power... And I don't mean IBM clones! eg the many z180 SBC's some upto 20MHz or Tilmann Reh's CPU280! I feel that the original SAM's capabilities should be fully exploited before any real effort is made on an all-new machine:-) Regards Johnathan. ... If you find yourself in a hole: quit digging. -- |Fidonet: Johnathan Taylor 2:2501/307.9 |Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Standard disclaimer: The views of this user are strictly his own.
