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From: bill@persci.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: $1288 ashtrays ($7200 coffeepots on airplanes)
Message-ID: <343@persci.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 11:04:21 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 13 11:04:21 1985
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Reply-To: bill@persci.UUCP (Bill Swan)
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Summary: Cost$ = f(complexity), not f(volume)

In article <1052@mhuxt.UUCP> js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag) writes:
>> [Phil Ngai]   [...]These responsible
>> journalists somehow failed to uncover or report the fact that Delta
>> Airlines, buying from a commercial vendor like Lockheed, pays around $4000
>> for an item with similar functionality.[...] ...But I must conclude that
>> coffee pots on airplanes are much more complicated than the kind that
>> K-mart sells and that's why they cost so much more.
>     Of course, Delta has to serve coffee to a few hundred passengers out of
>their coffee pots.  I guess the military has some transport jets which can
>carry similar numbers of passengers but seriously doubt if the $7200 number
>is referring to such a coffee pot. [...]
>Jeff Sonntag ihnp4!mhuxt!js2j
>    "My SO ain't doodly squat..

Jeff, please re-read Phil's statement. The problem is the *complexity* of the
pot, *not* the number of people served from it. Sure, making larger quantities
of coffee probably increases the expense of the pot, but as in ground-based
pots, it's not very big.
-- 
William Swan  {ihnp4,decvax,allegra,...}!uw-beaver!tikal!persci!bill