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From: woods@convex.com (Darrin Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Help: IIcx powers itself down
Message-ID: <111186@convex.convex.com>
Date: 14 Dec 90 21:28:26 GMT
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In article <1990Dec13.145158.17841@eng.umd.edu> russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes:
>>
>>I had this problem once.  Mine was an original cx.  After having the 13"
>>RGB plugged into the back of the mac for about 2-3 months, my mac started
>>doing the same things that you are describing - shutting itself off.
>
>I've got a Mac II which has been running a 13" High-res RGB since early 1988
>or so--  seems to handle it fine.
>--


Mac II's have a much beefier power supply than the cx's or ci's, and we
won't even get into the discussion about the PS on the si.  Mac II's, IIx's
and IIfx's are rated at 230watts vs 90 on the cx and ci.

Blacksheep
Senior Systems Engineer

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