From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Dec 6 12: 9:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FB1F37B401 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 12:09:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-34-52.knology.net [24.214.34.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8627F43EB2 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 12:09:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gB6K9af5076577 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 14:09:36 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Received: (from dkelly@localhost) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gB6K9aVn076576 for chat@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 14:09:36 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 14:09:36 -0600 From: David Kelly To: chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Mickey Mouse Power Plug Message-ID: <20021206200936.GA76500@grumpy.dyndns.org> References: <200212052141.53270.dkelly@HiWAAY.net> <014e01c29d5e$ca9404a0$3c00000a@drizzle> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <014e01c29d5e$ca9404a0$3c00000a@drizzle> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 11:36:36AM -0800, Benjamin Krueger wrote: > I want to like Apple. Really I do. But come on, a non-standard *power cord*? > Are they really that desperate to be the only game in town you can buy a > power cord from? I don't believe it is nonstandard. Its just not the big fat NEMA plug most computers (and other Macintoshs) use. Just because its hard to find the little power cord used by electric shavers doesn't make it nonstandard. This appears to be a 3 conductor version of that. Then again, before Apple put USB on the first iMac, USB was "nonstandard" by many definitions. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message