"Richard Erlacher" <edick(a)idcomm.com> wrote: Tee hee. I think the closest Best Buy to Jeff is in Laurel, Maryland. I was there a few days after Christmas. If they ever sold SCSI cables, those have been flushed to make room for USB cables. That's actually a lot of the problem where Jeff is: there are no retailers who sell cables cheaply from their storefronts. (At least I don't know where they are.) Sure, they have Best Buy and CompUSA and maybe Micro Center, but all you can get at the first two is cables in hard plastic packaging with colorful cardboard inserts that you end up paying for. If you need cheap cables, you wait for the next computer show to come round, and then you go to the meeting hall where it's being held and buy what you need from someone who deals there. Or if you're more technically inclined maybe you go to the next hamfest, but those are a warm-weather activity in that part of the world. Meanwhile, here in Sillycon Valley, if I need to paw through a rat's nest of serial or SCSI cables all I have to do is look in the right box in my bedroom. (Boxed rat's nests are much more manageable.) If what I need isn't there, I can pick it up at Fry's or Central Computer if I want new, or if I can take used I can find it at the next swap meet, or at the next CRC Saturday sale, or maybe at Weird Stuff. -Frank McConnell