On May 15, 19:10, Tony Duell wrote:
> I did have the circuits in front of me. I always find it better to argue
> from possible facts :-)....
But that takes all the fun (risk) out of it :-)
> > There were no less than three versions of the black linear PSU. None
of
> > them were satisfactory, but only one, the "adapter and converter",
earned
> > the obvious nickname.
>
> I think I've only seen one of them. Which is the particularly bad one?
It has a label identifying it as "Adapter/Eliminator" or similar. They're
*very* rare, partly because Acorn tried to recall them, and partly because
not many were sent out before the problem was spotted. There's one fairly
common one, which *isn't* particularly prone to go "phut", and that's
probably what you have. The only thing wrong with that one is that it
doesn't have much spare capacity, and therefore has no connector for a disk
(or w.h.y.).
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Received on Sun May 16 1999 - 06:12:30 BST