Acill wrote:
I just got an X-surf II for free out of a trashed A2000 I found at a yard sale here. It works and thats a great deal for me. The thing that pissed me off though is what the X-surf II card IS. This thing is nothing more then a $5 Realtek based 8029 chip ISA card stuck on a custom ZII adapter board. I looked and see these sell for $120 at most places. Thats a damn shame. I see no reason they should be any more then $50-75 MAX. This s yet another hardware company taking a cheap card and adapting to use on an Amiga then marking it up for max profits. This is going to kill the Amiga all over if new stuff comes out and they mark it up just because it works on Amiga.
Hi,
I discussed this thread with Jens yesterday and he tells me he tried to post a reply but wasn't allowed.
Here is a snippet from him:
"QUOTE"
Read the thread, tried to post a reply, and got the message "you don't have the right to post in this thread". Not sure why, but I'm pretty pissed, because it was a long post explaining all the deatils involved, for example
the custom metal bracket that's even more expensive than the ISA card itself, and software updates costing more than $10,000.00,- until today, but being free for every X-Surf and X-Surf 2 customers.
"END QUOTE"
and that's just for the X-Surf, Jens makes excellent products all round and all take massive development.
Who pays for it?
The end user to a point and Jens to another point I know for a fact that he has written off thousands of dollars in development costs on more than one occasion.
Regs
Otpsoft
