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To: Moominoid who wrote (22725)	1/22/1999 9:05:00 AM
From: soup	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213176

>How much is a SCSI card?< Jobs promised them for $49. (See Apple Store.)

To: Moominoid who wrote (22725)	1/22/1999 11:18:00 AM
From: setzkell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213176

How much is a SCSI card? What do people think about the mice on G3? The scsi cards are $50 @ the Apple Store. They are mfg. by Adaptec. These cards are to be used for "connectability" only. My understanding is that you can't boot from an external drive with these. According to info @ Adaptec's site they will be offering a $150 card that will be bootable. The Apple store makes no mention of this "little" shortcoming. Pretty annoying actually. I am wondering if you can boot form the internal Zip drive that is offered with the G3s. In general I don't like mice. From my point of view it is no better or worse than a teardrop mouse. My kids like it though . They bought for me a Macally iBall (trackball) for $49.95 for Christmas. I saw one listed for $29.95 in a catalogue yesterday. I think that it is a dog and can see why the price is dropping. The hockey puck mouse is OK because I suspect that most people who would by a G3 will probaly have developed preferences for all sorts of aftermarket products anyway and probaly would replace the mouse no matter what it looked like. So aapl only has one mouse to worry about. An interesting sidebar to a USB mouse is that it should work with PC's USB connection especially laptops. I may give mine to my brother-in-law who doesn't like the button pointer on his new IBM laptop. I think that this may generate some interesing comments. aapl seems to be to have ranged down and then back up over a point as I typed this. Amazin. 38.5 @ 10:39 am regards,pjk