Actually, if you just buy the parts and then put them together yourself,
a good parallel link should only cost you three dollars. Radio Shack
will charge a bit more than a lot of other parts stores, but you can still
get the parts at about $4.50 there.
that 10 bucks is from what? did you buy the whole cable or
just parts and
then build it?
I know that a regualr cable (graph-link) costs some 30 odd bucks.