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From: cloos@acsu.buffalo.edu (James H. Cloos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Great Cable Debate ( was Re: <None> )
Keywords: cable hp48
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Date: 15 Feb 91 01:58:53 GMT
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In article <1991Feb15.011656.10673@Neon.Stanford.EDU> zimmer@calvin.stanford.edu (Andrew Zimmerman) writes:
|[etc]
|   (This is for the PC, although it does apply to the Mac as well)
|   I disagree with this.  First, lets get some of the facts straight.
|The cables can be gotten from Edu-calc for about $30 sans software and
|$50 for the cable with the software.  $20 for the disk is a little high
|if you have access to the net, but it beats the heck out of a long
|distance phone call.  For the $30, you get a cable to DB-9 and a DB-9
|to DB-25.  That converter costs about $7-8 just by itself.
|   With this in mind, that price of $30 is in line with the cable prices
|of any other manufacturer.  ie DEC, or SUN.  (Next cables are about $19.)
| [etc]

You do not get the DB9<->DB25 converter with the CableOnly package.  You
get only the HP<->DB9 cable, in a plastic bag.  (The complete set comes in
a standard-color-scheme 48 box.)

-JimC
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