Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 14:09:36 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Mickey Mouse Power Plug Message-ID: <20021206200936.GA76500@grumpy.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <014e01c29d5e$ca9404a0$3c00000a@drizzle> References: <200212052141.53270.dkelly@HiWAAY.net> <014e01c29d5e$ca9404a0$3c00000a@drizzle>
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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
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