[time-nuts] Re: 5071B

[djl]

Thanks, Chris. It's apparent that they are still handcrafted and fussed 
with until working, hence the cost is high. Certainly after 45 yr, the 
engineering cost should be well amortized...

On 2023-06-13 18:54, Chris Caudle via time-nuts wrote:
> My original email was apparently cut off mid-sentence by some sort of
> formatting problem.
> The response to the price question was supposed to read:
> 
> I emailed the marketing manager and the response was:
> "The same as the 5071A-C001 and 5071A-C002.
> We don’t publish the list price, you have to quote, but in general
> it is greater than $70k."
> 
> On Tue, June 13, 2023 12:28 pm, djl via time-nuts wrote:
>> Two questions from the announcements: 1) what is the "lifetime of the
>> product"?
> 
> The PTTI paper which originally kicked off this thread stated that the
> design goal was production until 2035.  The thought was that a 
> different
> technology may have superseded the 5071 design by then (the design will 
> be
> nearly 45 years old at that point).
> 
> 2) what's the price?  I'm assuming the answer to the
>> latter is if you have to ask, you can't afford one
> 
> See above.  I see plenty of cars which cost well more than that around
> here, but having a 5071 probably doesn't impress your neighbors as 
> much.

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