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Subject: Re: SCSI3 cables
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At 02:13 PM 9/18/97 -0400, Patrick S. Roberts wrote:
 
>Heh... I just built a 80,000$ Box here and they started balking 'cause the
>ethernet card ran them 769$. hahha...

That must be quite a box. Is it Intel-based? If so, how many dozen PPros
does it have in it? ;-) What sort of Ethernet card costs $769?

In any event, the Granite external cables are high if you pay full list,
but you can get discounts from resellers and most people really need the
internal cables. At least for disk drives.

--Brett