atw: Re: Buying a new laptop

  • From: Michael Edward Granat <megranat@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 22:16:03 +1000

What Joe (Zolin)?

You've never heard of something called ribbon cable?

Or multi-core cable?

The power supplies that connected with coat hanger wire
wrapped in jute twine went out with ... the Macintosh I think. ;-)

Cheers,

Michael Granat

At 16:18 19/5/2004, you wrote:
>Yes you could pull the power supply out of a desktop and have it running
>externally, but you would need some serious recabling done, as a power
>supply for a desktop hase discrete outputs for
>The Motherboard
>Devices such as hard drives and CD-ROM drives (gad I am behind the times
>already, should also include DVD and DVD RW...)
>Shutdown detectors to turn the power supply off or send it to sleep.

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