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- Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 09:25:24 CST
- From: Darius Vaskelis <U39648@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Message-ID: <93026.092524U39648@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
- Subject: Re: PS/2 harddrive upgrade
- References: <1993Jan23.224538.20072@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- >>Thank god IBM chose SCSI for its current PS/2 machines. (Not mention
- >>it's a very speedy SCSI implementation as well!)
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- >Yeah, they went SCSI, but have you checked out the prices on their
- >proprietary SCSI cables? Does around $109 for a cable and terminator sound
- >fair? I could get an ISA SCSI adapter for nearly that price!
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- I think you're talking about the external connector, _NOT_ the internal
- one which is the same ribbon cable everyone else uses.
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- You don't have to get it from IBM, you know.
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- And, while you may be able to get an ISA SCSI adapter for that price, I
- really doubt it'd be nearly as sophisticated or fast as the PS/2 SCSI
- adapter.
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- - Darius
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