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- From: mellon@ncd.com (Ted Lemon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: Has anyone seen Duo Add-ons?
- Message-ID: <MELLON.93Jan10205617@pepper.ncd.com>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 04:56:17 GMT
- References: <1ijthmINNp18@jumbo.read.tasc.com> <104038@netnews.upenn.edu>
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- Organization: Network Computing Devices, Inc.
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- In-reply-to: hodas@saul.cis.upenn.edu's message of 8 Jan 93 14:38:41 GMT
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-
- >I can't believe they assume every docked duo is on some giant net!
- >What morons. It would have cost them about $0.50 in parts to pass
- >through that port.
-
- Not really. Have you seen the unit? The entire back of the thing
- is packed solid with connectors. There's no place for the modem to
- pass through. I'm sure they could have solved the problem, but it
- probably would have raised the cost and/or size of the unit noticably.
-
- Of course, I think it's rather boneheaded that they're selling 10base2
- and 10baseT versions of the thing instead of putting an AUI port on it
- so that you could hook it up to whatever you wanted. The marketroid
- that I talked to also seemed surprised at the idea that anybody would
- take one of these minidocks on the road - he thought that it would
- always sit on your desk in your office. Get real.
-
- _MelloN_
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