[iyonix-support] iyonix 2 or not

Hi
Having failed to get logged into drobe to respond to something there I thought I'd make a couple of comments here.
Iyonix 2: This would have been rather a nice machine.. dual core cpu etc .. absorbed many months of my design time. Then came the crunch question.. could we make it at a price people would pay, and would enough ACTUALLY pay that price.. rumours have suggested a build cost to a first batch of 10 to 30 machines of between 50 and 100k .. probably not unreasonable at commercial rates, considering the CPU had just under 1500 connections on it and itself would have cost over £100!.. that would mean that sales of several hundred units would be needed at similar costs to the current (almost) standard iyonix.
Would several hundred of you or others actually commit to this.. or would we be left thoroughly out of pocket?
To put it bluntly, we could not make the sums add up! - however hard we tried.
For the future, once the remaining stock of machines is exhausted (<10 first come first served) iyonix will continue to trade, as reported, in spares and accessories.
I shall be around, initially within iyonix, then in my own right, providing support as reasonably required.
Castle continues to license RISCOS as before.. all product work has been undertaken in iyonix in recent times to protect the IP ownership as others have rightly deduced.
So Thank You all for your support over the years.. It has been an iteresting time.
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Many thanks

John

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