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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: Suggestions for the free Unix projects
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Date: Wed, 7 Oct 92 04:03:47 GMT
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In article <1992Oct6.193229.18258@meaddata.com> sdw@meaddata.com (Stephen Williams) writes:
>:terry@icarus.weber.edu writes:
>: > o A "media charge" of $30 is not unreasonable if CD-ROM's are used,
>
>$1500 for the first 100 CD's, mastered from Tape (8mm or dat).
>About $3 for each after that.
>
>A 'One off' costs $200-500.
>
>A complete mastering system costs $20000+ (Plus I assume you have to
>get them pressed at some place big, don't know.).
I will add 1000 copies of a piece of paper to go in the front; I'm going to
assume it's black and white and that Aztec or Kinko's does it for me (I'm
hypothetically broke after buying the mastering system and can't afford a
photo copier). Assume $.03 each (3 cents). It's worth it to avoid the
phone calls asking "how do I use this?".
1000 CD's at the lowest figures listed for each step above:
Mastering system: $ 20,000
3 "one off" for beta: $ 600 (3 Beta's is *very* conservative)
First 100 CD's: $ 1,500
Next 900 CD's: $ 2,700
B&W paper for front: $ 300
______
TOTAL $ 25,100
Per CD cost: $ 25.10
Assume high "one off": $ 26.00
This all assumes that there is no production loss and the "+" on the $20,000
means "and some cents".
What did I say again? Oh yeah:
>: > o A "media charge" of $30 is not unreasonable if CD-ROM's are used
Maybe next time I should "show my work"... 8-).
The mastering system is used to take data and lay it out in the correct
file format; it has a "CD Emulator" (2 disks) and a DAT drive for writing
the master, plus all hardware and software to deal with the creation of
the master tape. This is not something you can do without unless you
work somewhere that already bought one and they will miraculously let you
use it, or you own the company (volunteers, anyone?).
The assumptions about 1000 disks may be wrong; I kind of doubt it; I think
the number of people buying CD ROM drives to do 386BSD or Linux would be
smaller than that; however, if they are wrong on the low side, the cost of
the mastering system amortized out over a larger number of CD ROMs *would*
drop the cost. 2000 would drop it to 14.05/14.50 depending on Beta costs,
again, assuming no production losses.
Terry Lambert
terry@icarus.weber.edu
terry_lambert@novell.com
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