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Re: Cheap PCMCIA SCSI



On Sun, 28 Sep 1997 14:25:23 -0700, Randal Whittle wrote:

>At 10:22 AM 9/27/97, Paul Khoury wrote:
>>Does anyone know of a source for a cheap, decent
>>PCMCIA SCSI-2 card?  It has to be <$70 (unless it's
>>a genuine IBM card), compatible with OS/2, and of course,
>>PCMCIA, not parallel port connected.  I know that several
>>people on this list gave sites to obtain adapters really cheap,
>>but they either don't seem to have them any longer and
>>wouldn't return my email.
>
>	You can't beat the OS support and virtually universal support provided by
>Adaptec.
>
>	Model 1460.  Gives you all the PCMCIA you'll want.  A bit more than your
>stated price range though.
>
>	By the way, there's almost *never* anything that's "genuine IBM"--almost
>everything with an IBM name on it is made by someone else.  Its a mistake
>to think its better only because IBM's name is on it.  Look at the new
>Workpad as an example.
>
>
What about their ThinkPads, PS/2's, and Aptivas,
or whatever else they make, in terms of whole systems?
I mean, they assemble them at least and make the BIOS