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From: rpw3@fortune.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.lan
Subject: Re: Ethernet addressing - (nf)
Message-ID: <3564@fortune.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 10-Jun-84 07:03:34 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun 10 07:03:34 1984
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#R:uvacs:-132900:fortune:5900024:000:978
fortune!rpw3    Jun 10 02:13:00 1984

Geez, what a way to make money! I hereby announce (no I don't, it's a joke!)
a new company, called Addresses Limited, which will give you a guaranteed
unique 48-bit number suitable for use as an Ethernet address for only $5.00!!

[Let's see... my one-time fee to Xerox for 2^24 numbers is $1000, so
 if I sell only 10,000 of these, that's $0.10 for each unique number. 
 Each postcard I send the numbers out on is $0.20 postage, the card
 itself is a nickle (pretty "engraving"), the machine time to print it
 is $0.02, the operator time is $0.07 (labor's expensive), and the legal
 fees and liability insurance is $1.37, G & A $0.35... Gross profit = $2.89
 (if my addition is correct), or 58%. Gross earnings on 10k = $28,900.
 Not too shabby... Now, how do I get that SBA loan for the initial $1k?]

Rob Warnock

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