[ILUG] ever in search of The Right Cable

[Robert Elliott (Admin)]

On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Brendan Kehoe wrote:

> Is there a particular place in Ireland who are known to have reasonably priced
> and *available* selections of cables?  E.g., a pcmcia card plug to DB25 cable
> so I can use my scanner w/ an Adaptec slimSCSI pcmcia card?  (Ordering one
> from Adaptec costs US$36, which is an insane price for one cable---that's
> $1 for the cable, $35 for the shipping.)
> 
> Or, the place would equally be asked about the reverse---a DB25 male to, say,
> a 50pin high-density *female* scsi-ii plug.  Or a female-to-female 50pin
> high-density (or low-density) adapter so two cables w/ male ends can be joined
> up.
Try Maplin's, just around the corner from Peat's. They've even got a
honkin' big catalogue chock-full of cably goodness, and they'll order
anything they didn't have on the premises. I ordered a couple of
parallel/rj45 converters, and they arrived within a week, and cost me
nearly IR2.00 for the lot.

robert
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