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From: "Patrick S. Roberts" <proberts@sequoianet.com>
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Subject: Re: SCSI3 cables
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On Thu, Sep 18, 1997 at 12:26:24PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote:
> 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

Noper.. its a Sun Ultra Enterprize 450...
w/2 300mhz Ultra II's...
1.5gb of mem and a few other nice toys... [also that price also includes 
about 35,000$ worth of software too....]

and the Ethernet card is real nice... albeit a bit expensive...

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