[rescue] What is a good terminal?

[Dave McGuire]

On August 8, Bill Bradford wrote:
> >   I dunno...I use MMJs all over the place.  I paid about $30 for the MMJ
> > die for my crimper, and the blanks are cheap.  
> 
> Coworker went looking for a MMJ crimper the other day; cheapest we could
> find was $180 out of the Blackbox catalog.  The die may be $30, but what
> about the crimper the die has to go in?

  Oh sure, the crimper was a hundred bucks...but I already had that.
I'm sure most of us do.

> You must be the odd man out; I have maybe 2-3 adapters, maybe 3 "real"
> MMJ cables - so they're "saved" for using on real DEC equipment where
> I have no other option.  I can buy MMJ heads locally, but not the crimpers,
> either.. so the last time I needed an MMJ cable I had to pay $6-8/each
> to Blackbox.

  I'm frequently the odd man out.  I don't understand why.  But I got
my MMJ die and other stuff at a local contractors' supply house.  No
problem.

      -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Laurel, MD