[3096] in SIPB-AFS-requests
Re: Punting the medalist pro's, staying narrow
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Fri Jul 24 21:23:20 1998
To: sipb-afsreq@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 24 Jul 1998 18:36:44 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 21:23:12 EDT
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
Greg wrote:
>One of the Barracudas arrived two days ago and the other four arrived
>today, along with five 50/68-pin adaptors. Unfortunately, the
>adaptors are female-female, and we need male-male.
Yeah, I will Zot! the MCC on monday (or sooner) and RMA them back to NECX.
I guess it's my fault for trusting them to order the right part
and not checking them. Unfortunately it's not like they give you paper
or electronic confirmation of your order (though I guess I could have
asked him to read me the part numbers).
>jhawk had some difficulty finding the correct male-male part, so as a
>hedge, I called The Mate Company and had them fax me two separate
>quotes. The first is for five High-Density 68 Male to 50 Male "Super
>thin, unterminated" adaptors (SM-025), .33" high by 2.8" wide by 1.19"
>long. The second is for five of the same thing, but "Unterminated,
>offset connectors on vertical adaptor" (SM-039); dimensions are not
>given but it uses a vertical offset, so I it's higher but probably not
>as long. The SM-039 is about $15; the SM-025 is about $20. So we can
>put in an order for five of one or five of the other on Monday if we
>can't figure anything else out.
When I came back from Ultimate (unfortunately a bit late), Greg and
I talked about them and I judged it would be more expedient to just
order them from TMC tonight for Monday arrival. Unfortunately it's
a bit late, and they can't guarantee saturday shipping, but they'll try.
Additionally, I ordered SM-017 because they were totally out of stock
on SM-039, and down to 4 ("or less") on SM-025. SM-017 is similar to
SM-025 (i.e. it is not offset), but is 1.25" instead of 1.19".
>We also visted CompUSA, which didn't have what we want, and phoned
>Micro Center, which carries something that might plausibly be what we
>want but didn't have it in stock. I might try E.L.I. and/or PCs For
>Everyone over the weekend.
My suspicion is chances of finding the right things are sufficiently
scarce that it looked implausible. Still, either Greg or I will try
to find out for future reference.
>So much for having disk issues resolved by July 25.
It was an attempt. that I didn't say "disk and enclosure issues
resolved", but in all fairness, you win. However, please wait for
2359 before making your final verdict ;-)
>We might send the widgets back, since they were about $30 each and not
>useful to us.
Verily.
--jhawk
