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From: michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au>
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Subject: Re: novell ne2000 cards with FreeBSD...opinions?
To: pst@shockwave.com (Paul Traina)
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 17:56:14 +1000 (EST)
Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, davidg@Root.COM, hackers@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199509010745.AAA00559@precipice.shockwave.com> from "Paul Traina" at Sep 1, 95 00:45:10 am
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Paul Traina writes:

> OK, well it sounds like a 50-50 trade-off, these machines aren't going
> to be doing heavy ethernet operations, so the price savings ($25/card vs
> $100/card) is worth it (unless someone knows of a cheap source of WD cards
> in the SF bay area).

If you can get the right model (something which the local distributors don't
seem to be able to fathom :-(), the Addtron AE-200-JL comes in a 8013EBT
compatible form .. I was buying them here for << $A60 (~$US45) recently,

	michael