[IAEP] Humane Reader is a $20 8-bit PC for TVs

[C. Scott Ananian]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 3:18 PM, John Watlington <wad at laptop.org> wrote:
> Its amazing how cheap you can make a laptop if you
> leave out the RAM, battery, display, keyboard, networking,
> processor, and plastic case.
>
> It is a much less developed version of AMD's 50x15
> terminal.

That said, I do not believe their price quote at all.

I suspect the inventors added up some prices and reduced by some
arbitrary factor to include "volume".  My guesstimate says $20 for the
electronics BOM alone, not including all the other costs of
manufacturing.
  --scott

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