crimmins@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (11/11/87)
>> 2) Appletalk costs a fortune - for no good reason as far as I can >> see. I spoke to a dealer here in Australia who wanted to sell me >> 100m of cable for over A$1,000 ($US650) - he was embarrased, but >> that's how much Apple wanted for it. >The network wire is hideously >expensive because it is teflon insulated so as to conform to US fire >codes. > >-Zigurd You can buy the raw cables and connectors to build your own custom cable setups. You can buy either the Teflon coated cable if your local electrical code requires it, or the less expensive PVC-coated cable. Anyway, I don't remember exact pricing, but it was around an order of magnitude cheaper to go with bulk pvc-cable. The supplier I used was Anixter, Inc. based out of Evanston, Illinois (at least that's the chicago headquarters). They were quite nice to deal with. -- Dan Crimmins crimmins@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu