Was just comparing what was available to 'time nuts' in recent history, not the commercial market.
Technology, marches on !! -pete On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 1:13 PM, S. Jackson via time-nuts < time-nuts@febo.com> wrote: > Pete, > > that is not inflation, that is supply and demand. The Trimble Mini-T was > priced at $945 on Trimble's standard price list for 1 to 9 pieces, and the > Thunderbolt was likely twice that much when sold new, so you have to > compare > that to the LTE-Lite pricing. > > The Thunderbolt units offered by Tom via TAPR to Time Nuts at that time > were old rejects that had done their duty already, were fully paid-off and > would have been scrapped and recycled by the Telecom otherwise, and Tom > invested a huge amount of his time testing them and packaging/shipping > them at > no charge, so that pricing was completely random and lucky for us to be at > the right time at the right moment. > > In fact the complete used Thunderbolt package now lists for up to $498 on > Ebay.. > > No problem on offering these kits factory-new with warranty at what we > hope is a fair price, > Bye, > Said > > > In a message dated 10/17/2014 12:49:32 Pacific Daylight Time, > p...@petelancashire.com writes: > > First three cheers to LTE for making these available. > > It reminds me when Motorola made a developers kit for the then > new 68HC11 MCU available for $68.11. > > I know of one design win they got that more then made of their marketing > costs. > > Another that hit me is with inflation the LTE Lite is not much more then > what many of us paid for our Thunderbolts. > > For those new to the list ... > > https://www.febo.com/pipermail/time-nuts/2008-May/031100.html > > http://www.leapsecond.com/pages/tapr-tbolt/ > > In 2008, $124, the LTE Lite in 2014 $195. > > With 'real' inflation (not the 11% you get online) the $71 difference is > not much more. > > My two backup Thunderbolts cost me $145 each, just before they hit $200 > then became history. > > Again thanks to Said and JLT !!!! > > -pete > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.