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From: nilesinc@well.UUCP (Avi Rappoport)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: SE-30 SCSI problems
Summary: IIcx wimpy power supply
Message-ID: <14448@well.UUCP>
Date: 6 Nov 89 19:11:00 GMT
References: <36127@apple.Apple.COM> <6084@tank.uchicago.edu>
Reply-To: nilesinc@well.UUCP (Avi Rappoport)
Organization: Niles & Associates, Inc.
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In article <6084@tank.uchicago.edu> scb1@tank.uchicago.edu (Sam Blackman) writes:
>Could it be that the power supply in the SE/30 and/or IIcx is just not meant
>to handle all of the external devices that people pile on it (scanners,
>ext HD's, extra monitors, DaynaFiles, etc.) without giving some problems ?
>

Oh, yeah, back when the IIcx came out, some people at BMUG discovered that
if you filled up the slots and then put 2 floppy drives (no external power)
on the machine, it just refused to come up.  Not enough power.  At the time
Apple said something about board manufacturers not following specs, so that
boards were pulling a lot, but it's all kindof hazy to me.

The II however, has more power than a tractor :-)

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