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From: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
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On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 03:25:47PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
> > I paid the equivalent of USB $20 for both my NEC-based PCI and CardBus
> > firewire cards... including cables, and taxes, here in .uk.
> 
> That's USD I think.  If I could get them at those prices, I'd buy 
> them.  Used?  I must be looking in the wrong stores.

USD. :) Each, that is. The PCI cards I bought new from an online shop, many
firewire knock-offs abound now. The CardBus card I bought from eBay.

All of my cards are based around the NEC uPD72861 or similar and thus
supported by fwohci(4).

BMS