hmm. good point.
well, orethrius, i didn't mean the end which goes into the wall, i meant the end which goes into the device, carrying 12v after transformation, as you know there are many different shapes of this, some earthed, some not, etc etc.
well, bedouin i suspect i won't end up getting this asante thing from the states, because it looks like some other people are quite frantic to snap it up, and i am not too eager to pay the transatlantic shipping costs. Still, they are scarce as anything here. i suppose i should just bide my time and hope for the best. somebody on the LEM UK list told me to contact the YMUG and see if any of them have an asante scsi adaptor, so maybe i will do that too.
so far my expenditure has been to buy floppies of MacOS 7.0 for GBP8.50 approx including postage. I seriously begrudge this since it is officially abandonware, however this is my only option to get install disks since apple have cunningly only made the update disks available as disk images.
they are trying to show me that there really is no such thing as a free lunch.