Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tellab5!ram
From: ram@tellabs.com (Bob Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: HP serial cables
Message-ID: <4331@tellab5.tellabs.com>
Date: 25 Oct 90 17:34:54 GMT
References: <1990Oct25.041352.8140@cs.columbia.edu>
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In article <1990Oct25.041352.8140@cs.columbia.edu> ji@cs.columbia.edu (John Ioannidis) writes:
>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. 

Well, I don't know what takes so long, my cable took 2 hours to build, including
time to go to Radio Shack, and only cost me $10.  Besides, we don't all own
Macs and PCs, so the $30 cable only kit would be a real waste, because then I'd
have to buy (or make) another cable to mate to that.

As far as bandwidth being wasted, I learned many valuable things on the net
that allowed me to make my cable so easily and cheaply.  As far as I'm concerned
it's all been a very good use of bandwidth.


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