[iyonix-support] Re: iyonix 2 or not

In message <48E008B9.90507@xxxxxxxxxx>
          John Ballance <jwb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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?
> 
If it's on the cards I'd absolutely commit to one. Depending on the 
price maybe two although I'm not sure what I'd do with it.

> To put it bluntly, we could not make the sums add up! - however hard we
> tried.
> 
Let's hope we can do something about that.

> 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.
> 
I wish Castle the best of luck with licensing and the future success 
of RISC OS and also for your future non-RISC OS work.

Andrew
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