HP 48SX Demonstration Card

[Chris Dreher]

(07-23-2016 12:40 AM)JDW Wrote:  Which should drive down my cost estimate further insofar as memory was more expensive back then than now. That should still hold true even if we adjust for inflation. As such, the prices we see for SRAM cards sold day are what I would consider "too high."

Since the topic is ROM card manufacturing costs around 1992:

• Do you have sources for the estimates, especially from the years around 1992?
• Marketing costs are not manufacturing costs. The demo card had almost no marketing. This is typical for other platforms.
• Profit is not manufacturing costs. HP has little incentive to make profit off of something like the demo card. The point of the demo card is to increase sales of HP 48SX. Charging large profit on the card leads to fewer demo cards in-the-field which is counter-productive to sales.
• ROM cards do not come with SRAM.
  

The original statement was only about the manufacturing costs. Profit, development costs, marketing, packaging, and other costs push up the final price for the end consumer.