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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!lkba!lkb
- From: uunet!lkba!lkb (Larry Blische)
- Subject: Re: CDRom drives/3.0 from NeXT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.144503.1481@lkba.uucp>
- Sender: lkb@lkba.uucp (Larry Blische)
- Reply-To: uunet!lkba!lkb
- Organization: LKB Associates, Inc.
- References: <dillon.0t3u@overload.Berkeley.CA.US>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 14:45:03 GMT
- Lines: 27
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- In article <dillon.0t3u@overload.Berkeley.CA.US>
- dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes:
- > I kinda expected when I bought this package deal from NeXT that they
- > would ship everything necessary to get the thing up and running, but
- > when my CD-Rom finally arrived I found that it did not contain a SCSI
- > cable or terminator! Now I have to wait another few days to get the
- > proper cable.
- >
- > Since no one has complained about it on the Net I feel as though I
- > missed something... were people expecting to have to buy the cabling
- > necessary to get the CD-Rom drive working as a separate item? I was
- > expecting, it being bundled by NeXT and extremely useful (NOT!)
- without
- > a means to connect it to the slab, that the cabling would come with
- it.
- >
-
- In the original offer that was announced on the net, it was stated that the
- cable was extra, and it gave the part number too. When I ordered mine from
- my (retail price only) dealer, they were quick to specify that I needed a
- cable and a terminator. I believe that they sold me a cheaper one than the
- one from NeXT.
- --
- Larry Blische uunet!lkba!lkb
- LKB Associates, Inc.
- 3118 Dunglow Road
- Dundalk, Maryland 21222-5304 USA
-