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In comp.sys.next.misc, dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes:
>    Since no one has complained about it on the Net I feel as though I
>    missed something... were people expecting to have to buy the cabling
>    necessary to get the CD-Rom drive working as a separate item?

NeXT doesn't bundle it because the type of cable you need depends on whether
you alredy have a SCSI device.  Many people do, so to add the CD-ROM, you
need a SCSI-1 to SCSI-1 cable (and no extra terminator).  If the CD-ROM is
your first SCSI device, then you need the special SCSI-2 to SCSI-1 cable
and a terminator.  These cables are too expensive to include them and
expect the user to just eat the cost if they didn't need it.

I'm sure your not the only one that didn't know this.  But most (if not
all) of the NeXT liturature says something like (needs SCSI cable) when
it talks about the CD-ROM, and when I called NeXT to get the part
number of the 3.0 upgrade package, the person made a point of telling
me that I also needed to order the cable.

BTW, I have my 3.0 disk, and my SCSI cable, but still no CD-ROM drive.  I
too was told it would ship last week.

Curt