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Ben Laurie (ben@algroup.co.uk)
Sat, 06 Feb 1999 15:27:17 +0000
David R. Conrad wrote:
> > Someone mentioned that he would only really trust a peripheral as a good
> > RNG. I invite anyone with the technical know-how to market such things. If
> > they were offered for $10 or less I would unhesitatingly buy one for all
> > my personal machines.
>
> I've been listening, both here and formerly on cypherpunks, for quite some
> time (without saying much, since unlike our friend Mr. Shen I prefer to do
> my learning without revealing too often how much I need it), and I've seen
> that proposal quite a few times. Hasn't gone anywhere yet.
I've been talking to a friend of mine, and between us we have the
technical know-how to design, build and manufacture this thing (though
marketing is definitely _not_ our strong point). However, there is _no
way_ we can do it for $10 or less unless we could shift very large
volumes, which seems unlikely. A more realistic price point would seem
to be more in the $50-$75 region (we can get it lower if we forego
distributors and can be bothered to spend our lives putting gadgets in
cardboard boxes and waiting in queues in the post office, an idea that
does not fill either of us with glee).
If that price doesn't put people off, we may even be persuaded to do it.
Cheers,
Ben.
-- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html"My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there." - Indira Gandhi
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:18:26