"One vendor quoted a $100K implementation fee + $10 additional royality fee per system. The other vendor declined the implementation."

I suspect that these two repsonses are, in fact, equivalent! ;-)


"It is too bad that this is the case because the PC marketplace dictates the availability of connectivity devices that are widely available and low cost."

Now wandering off-topic...

Interestingly, you can now get the little mini-ITX PC motherboards for well under a hundred quid (eg, here).
This gives you virtually a complete PC - with all those interfaces like USB, IRDA, etc - on a single 170x170mm card.