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Subject: RE: 1U tall *Modules*??!?

From: "joe.pavone" <fuzztone@...>
Date: 1999-11-23

1U tall is OK with me - more features being a good reason and I'll gladly go along with it if it's better for sales. Whatever I can do to make MOTM the Modular Of The Millennium...

...jp
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>From: motm@onelist.com on Mon, Nov 22, 1999 8:43 PM
>Subject: [motm] 1U tall ∗Modules∗??!?
>To: MOTM listserv
>
>From: "Paul Schreiber" <synth1@...>
>
>Time for an opinion poll:
>
>Let's say that a super-ultra-mega-cool module was in in design that could be
>either 3U wide x 5U tall, or 1U tall by 19" wide.
>
>In the 19" wide version, the advantages would be:
>
>a) optional "wall-wart" supply for non-MOTM customers
>b) more features than the 3U wide
>c) easier to build, due to mechanical reasons
>d) cost would be probably $30 more. Say $219 kit versus $249 kit in 1U tall.
>
>I really don't want 2 versions, and right now ∗really∗ tempted to do it as a
>1U to get
>possible more sales.
>
>It's more of an effects thing (ie like a '410 is an "effect")
>
>Well?
>
>Paul S.
>