72VDC power?

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Tue Mar 16 03:22:44 2004

On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Paul Koning wrote:

> Vintage> It probably ran off of batteries, possibly in a telco
> Vintage> environment, where that supply was readily available.
>
> No, Telco standard power is 48V DC. I think its tolerance is pretty
> loose (you're supposed to tolerate 60 volts???) but the nominal value
> is 48, not 72.

I know. But 72 is ordinal with 48 and in lieu of any other knowledge, I
hazarded a guess :)

-- 
Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
International Man of Intrigue and Danger                http://www.vintage.org
[ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers   ]
[ and academia at www.VintageTech.com  || at http://marketplace.vintage.org  ]
Received on Tue Mar 16 2004 - 03:22:44 GMT

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.0 : Fri Oct 10 2014 - 23:37:04 BST