Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 15:01:35 -0800 From: Rob <rob@pythonemproject.com> To: chat@FreeBSD.org Cc: chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Mickey Mouse Power Plug Message-ID: <3DF12C4E.7A941515@pythonemproject.com> References: <200212052141.53270.dkelly@HiWAAY.net> <014e01c29d5e$ca9404a0$3c00000a@drizzle> <20021206200936.GA76500@grumpy.dyndns.org>
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I'm not too thrilled about my Dell 8200 power cord. Looks like its just aching to get whacked off. Either that or the cat will chew it off :) Its probably some EU directive that comes into play. We wouldn't want to electrocute any Europeans with 20V. :) Rob. David Kelly wrote: > > 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 -- ----------------------------- The Numeric Python EM Project www.pythonemproject.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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