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From: conte@crest.crhc.uiuc.edu (Tom Conte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Cable less S/W (NO db-9 to db-25 converter)
Message-ID: <1991Feb21.234447.21522@roundup.crhc.uiuc.edu>
Date: 21 Feb 91 23:44:47 GMT
References: <3964@ryn.mro4.dec.com> <1991Feb14.175830.14229@csn.org> <39438@cup.portal.com>
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In article <39438@cup.portal.com>, jpser@cup.portal.com (John Paul Serafin) writes:
> Andrew
> zimmer@calvin.stanford.edu writes:
> ...
> >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.
> ...
> I bought the cable sans SW from EduCalc several months ago. (It is an
> HP part and has been listed with the other accessories on a slip of paper
> that comes with the calculator).  Elek-Tek does not carry it.
> There was NO db-9 to db-25 adapter.   Has this changed?
>
> John Serafin         | Operating a bicycle is more like driving than riding,
> jpser@cup.portal.com | operating an auto is more like riding than driving.

Something even more curious aparently has happened.  I stopped by the
UI bookstore and discovered that the IBM cable-only packages had been
recalled by HP to `be replaced by another product.'  Now, I'm wondering
if this means (1) the first cables were defective [hard to believe] or
(2) the newer package will include the DB9-to-DB25 converter [hopefully].

Um, would it be outside corporate policy for someone at HP to comment?

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Tom Conte	  Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing
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