PC floppy cable twists...

[Teo Zenios]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Allison" <ajp166 at bellatlantic.net>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 2:35 PM
Subject: Re: PC floppy cable twists...


>
> You missed the most basic reason.  One part, one bin, one stocking number
> and less standing stock.  Logistics of warehousing costs and space not
> electrical design.
>
> Everyone seems to forget or even miss that not too long after the PC was
> introduced and clones appeared the costs of producing, stocking and
servicing
> them were under great pressure.  Anything that cost, even pennies, could
put
> a vendor at risk.  Why did some vendors disappear?
>
>
> Allison

The original clone makers still had a huge profit margin so a few pennies
would not have mattered until the huge 1989-91 shakeout where pretty much
everybody started competing on nothing else but price (and purchasing power
benefits). I remember advertisements (early 90's ?) where DELL was comparing
its server to Compaq and it was thousands less for the same spec machine.