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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!news.mentorg.com!dracula!gcagle
  3. From: gcagle@dracula.mentorg.com (Greg Cagle)
  4. Subject: Re: 730 -> 735 upgrade
  5. Sender: news@news.mentorg.com (News User)
  6. Message-ID: <1993Jan26.154059.17875@news.mentorg.com>
  7. Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 15:40:59 GMT
  8. Reply-To: greg_cagle@mentorg.com
  9. References: <C17JEq.Fws@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca> <43968@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> <1993Jan25.203913.4106@news.mentorg.com> <1993Jan26.003518.24137@convex.com>
  10. Nntp-Posting-Host: dracula.mentorg.com
  11. Organization: Mentor Graphics
  12. Keywords: upgrade
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  15.  
  16. In article <1993Jan26.003518.24137@convex.com>, Mike Tighe <tighe@convex.COM> writes:
  17. >greg_cagle@mentorg.com writes:
  18. >>In article <43968@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>, xm9@sdcc12.ucsd.edu (richard g. adair) writes:
  19. >
  20. >>>Our local HP SE said that you get the fast wide SCSI on the upgrade.
  21. >>>However, the local Convex rep (who resells the HPs as a cluster)
  22. >>>said that he talked to insiders at HP who insisted that the upgrade
  23. >>>does *not* include the fast wide SCSI.
  24. >>
  25. >>Well, I'm looking at a 735 upgrade right now, and it's got a port
  26. >>on the I/O board labeled "16-bit Differential SCSI".
  27. >
  28. >Differential & fast/wide are not the same. Differential has a 50 pin
  29. >connector, and a 10 MB/s peak, while fast/wide has a 68 pin connector and a
  30. >20 MB/s peak.
  31.  
  32. I know that; I'm just reporting what it says on the back of the box.
  33.  
  34. - Greg
  35. -- 
  36. Greg Cagle | greg_cagle@mentorg.com
  37. Mentor Graphics Corporation
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