Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site fortune.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!fortune!rpw3 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 Article-I.D.: fortune.3564 Posted: Sun Jun 10 07:03:34 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Jun-84 00:29:12 EDT Sender: notes@fortune.UUCP Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA Lines: 22 #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 UUCP: {ihnp4,ucbvax!amd70,hpda,harpo,sri-unix,allegra}!fortune!rpw3 DDD: (415)595-8444 USPS: Fortune Systems Corp, 101 Twin Dolphin Drive, Redwood City, CA 94065