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. Michael Granat -- Write Ideas* Plain English Technical Communication. Advertising Copywriting. Business Writing. E-mail: writeideas@xxxxxxxx Web Site: <http://home.pacific.net.au/~megranat/> *Trading As business #0828673K Registered (1987) Corporate Affairs Victoria, Australia. WITHOUT PREJUDICE E & OE ************************************************** To post a message to austechwriter, send the message to austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe to austechwriter, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject field. To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject field. To search the austechwriter archives, go to www.freelists.org/archives/austechwriter To contact the list administrator, send a message to austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx **************************************************