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From: creiman@headroom.ncsa.uiuc.EDU (Chuck Reiman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Great Cable Debate ( was Re: <None> )
Keywords: cable hp48
Message-ID: <1991Feb14.152216@headroom.ncsa.uiuc.EDU>
Date: 14 Feb 91 21:22:16 GMT
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> In article <3964@ryn.mro4.dec.com> taber@ultnix.enet.dec.com (Patrick
St. Joseph Teahan Taber) writes:
> 
> =+"why did you climb Mt. Everest" things?  At some point, doesn't it
> =+become obvious that $50 for a well-made cable is not a bad deal
after
> =+all?
> 
>

I don't care what kind of cable it is. $50 is outrageous, especially
considering HP is always outrageously priced.  The cards and the
calculator itself are way out there, price-wise. Charging $50 for a 
stinking four wire cable is just twisting their proprietary knife.
Not buying an HP cable is more a form of protest than anything
else. We gave IBM hell for locking their customers into IBM only
systems, we should do the same for HP.

Which makes me wonder: Edu-calc seems to make a lot of accessories
for HP48s, why don't they whip up cables? Any reasonably large
company could custom order that kind of cable (IMHO). They'd 
probably make a killing off of us, if they charged a reasonable
price.

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