From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: May 10, 2005 5:55:47 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Re: Which Astroiidc option best?

Hi Tim;

On 10-May-05, at 5:41 PM, Tim wrote:

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I'm not sure my thought was understood here. What I envision is something like a

subcontract from Unibrain to Aplux to supplement Fire-i production and allowing them to

put their name on the box. Like Plymouth making full-size vans many years back when

the Dodge assembly line couldn't keep up with demand.

Orange Micro and ADS did the above - they split the cost of development on their FireWire Cameras. The boards are almost exactly the same as far as layout goes and other than cosmetic changes (the name on the board) that's it. The development costs are not trivial.

...though it's perhaps hard to imagine the demand for firewire webcams being all that

great...

Not now with Apple's iSight out their. Actually shortly after Apple did the iSight, most companies stopped any future production them and EOL'd all of them. The only exception was Unibrain who are still producing cameras.

TTYL...

Milton J. Aupperle

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