(John Schilling) wrote in message ...
You won't get one for less than a hundred thousand, and you get
a scarlet 'S' for "Sucker!" if you pay more than ten million,
but anything in between is possible.


Better yet, if I wanted 200 of them, what do you think they would
cost?

An order of that size gets you a factor of two to four in cost
reductions, which you ought to be able to negoitate as price
reductions.

Thanks for the info.

From talking to one sales/engineer it seemed that most of their cost
was in testing and "space rating". The level of quality control
required to get the reliability most customers want costs a lot. If
I was willing to accept a higher failure rate it seemed like they would
take a factor of 2 or 3 off the price.

-- Vince