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From: ji@cs.columbia.edu (John Ioannidis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: HP serial cables
Summary: I gave up and bought one
Message-ID: <1990Oct25.041352.8140@cs.columbia.edu>
Date: 25 Oct 90 04:13:52 GMT
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Reply-To: ji@cs.columbia.edu (John Ioannidis)
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Over the past eight months or so that I've owned my hp48cx, I have
made various vain attempts to build a serial cable for it. Some of
them involved bizarre actions, like trying to mold hotglue around four
crimp-on pins and shape them with an X-Acto knife. 

I finally gave up, shelled out $30 to EduCALC and bought one. The
thing is much better made than anything I could have made (and I'm
pretty good with my hands), and I wish I had bought it right from the
start. All the hours that I spent trying to make one were worth much
much more than $30.

I understand people's reluctance to pay $30 for a cable, but your time
(let alone the network bandwidth we've wasted with this discussion) is
just not worth it. 

/ji