Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!garnett From: garnett@cs.utexas.edu (John William Garnett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: How to make a cable for the NeXT serial port. Message-ID: <1246@nada.cs.utexas.edu> Date: 30 Mar 91 07:16:51 GMT References: <419@rosie.NeXT.COM> Organization: University of Texas at Austin Lines: 21 In article hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) writes: > >Couldn't NeXT just include a modem cable ( about $5 wholesale), >preferably BLACK, and thus save lots of people lots of headaches? > >Hardy Regardless of how much this would please me, someone else wouldn't like it (because they might not plan on using a modem with his/her NeXT). However, NeXT could certainly sell modem cables that would work with the NeXT. Even if they sold them at the same markup as they sell memory (~ 200% to 300%) it would be worth it to know one was getting a cable that would work. I have never understood the marketing motivations of major computer manufacturers (by the way, IBM doesn't sell cables either). -- John Garnett University of Texas at Austin garnett@cs.utexas.edu Department of Computer Science Austin, Texas