More data on dead wall wart

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Thu Dec 9 16:31:05 2004

> > One year, at the West Coast Computer Faire, we repaired
> > 5 TRS80 ones for other exhibitors ('spose the flaky power
> > at Brooks Hall might be responsible?).
> > We opened them by flinging them down onto a carpeted concrete floor.

On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Tom Jennings wrote:
> Shag, berber, or ...?

It looked like cheap commercial grade indoor/outdoor. But you could
probably get full specs from Greyhoud Exposition Services - just
don't trust anything that they say - at the time, they also claimed
that it was anti-static.

Fortunately, all 5 were just blown fuse, the common failure of those
warts.
Received on Thu Dec 09 2004 - 16:31:05 GMT