Author: Rajen Gupta
Date: 03:15:53 05/20/99
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you are meely considering the cost of the actual hardware without considering the intellectual input in designing the boards. sure the slab of wood with black and white squares and the bits of electronic wouldn't cost much but the people who thought of this design and implemented it into a commercial product need to make some money for a living. (after all a lot of software is available on a few floppies or a cdrom which costs less than a buck to produce so by your reasoning all software (including current chess programmes) should cost less than a buck. Rajen Gupta On May 20, 1999 at 05:46:18, Francesco Di Tolla wrote: >Hi guys, we had several discussions about the prices of chess programs, but I >heard few people talk about the prices o DGT boards. >How can this stuff cost that much? A decent wood borad costs 5-10 times less, >and the electronics should not be much. >I mean, one can buy probably a board with program included for a very similar >price! I think they should cost at least one half of what they cost. > >regards >Franz
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