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Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 23:35:13 -0500 (EST)
From: Craig Shrimpton <craigs@venus.os.com>
To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: Recommendations for SCSI card?
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On Thu, 28 Dec 1995, Michael Smith wrote:

> 
> Bollocks, and a complete waste of money.  Spend less than $100 on an NCR
> 53C810-based SCSI controller, and treat yourself to a nice dinner on the
> change.  The NCR chips are troopers, and perform just as well.
> 

Well, you can get the 946 from Sparco for $194.00.  Hardly an issue after 
spending zillions on 128 MB of RAM.  The ASUS card is great, if you 
happen own an ASUS.  Unless the board has the NCR bios you can't boot a 
drive with the ASUS card.


-Craig