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From: neil@uninet.cpd.com (Neil Gorsuch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Is there an 8+ serial port mux for NeXT cubes available?
Keywords: serial mux
Message-ID: <1991May2.215944.14131@zardoz.cpd.com>
Date: 2 May 91 21:59:44 GMT
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In article <1991Apr26.060343.17397@ecst.csuchico.edu> tempest@ecst.csuchico.edu (Kenneth K.F. Lui) writes:
>Peripherals catalog?  I don't know how much the serial port
>extender from UNINET is going for, but there are two other
>companies that have similar products--I guess, "real soon now"
>(tm)--for, what I think, _outrageous_ prices.  Oh well, so much
>for that idea...
>"Dazzl Multi-Serial and Parallel Board
> parallel device. $2,695."
>"Versalink(tm)
> link. $2,495 with Morning Star X.25.

If those are ethernet solutions, the prices are not untypical,
although the ethernet prices are starting to drop.  Our (UNINET)
prices, including SCSI cable and host software, range from $780 to
$1780, depending on how many serial ports you get.  Our stuff is
available now on the NeXT.

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