Exidy Sorcerer

From: Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se>
Date: Mon May 21 19:01:39 2001

Tony Duell skrev:

>> > Or cut off the existing plug and fit a nice, UK mains plug. Which I would
>> > do anyway, since like you I regard mains adapter plugs to be the
>> > invention of the devil.
>>
>> Could we agree on a fine DIN plug ? :))

>Anybody who uses an (audio-type) DIN plug for a mains connection is
>likely to be a candidate for a Darwin award :-)

How about the Dragon PSU, which uses a D-9? I can imagine the horrified
shreaks of hordes of PC users who unwittingly plug it into their "serial"
ports (real serial ports don't use D-9 plugs, and if they do, the Dragon
treatment is a fitting punishment).

>> I can understand your intention quite good ... still until today I
>> never needed a second transformer ... just sometimes an extendsion
>> cord with multiple outlets was needed. After all, there's still my
>> power supply project waiting to be finished ... a 'cable channel'
>> with outlets for all mayor countries for 220V and 110V - inclusive

>I've been thinking about making something like that, mostly to test
>devices before I convert them, and for running things that can't easily
>be converted, like wall-wart PSUs with odd output characteristics.

I've got a US DECstation 5000/200 which refused to work off the wall outlets
in my old flat, despite markings on the back saying that it ran on both 110V
and 220V, so I just used a cheap transformer from the "international
fleamarket". In my new flat, however, it works just fine without any adaptors.
Could it be the lack of earth in the new outlets?

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