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From: woods@convex.com (Darrin Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: ports
Message-ID: <111188@convex.convex.com>
Date: 14 Dec 90 21:38:29 GMT
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In article <15743@reed.UUCP> sharvy@reed.UUCP (Harvey Marvy) writes:
>
>Why can't you have switcher boxes for the slot in the back of the Mac?
>That is, connect the port to a box outside the mac which, for every input
>from the Mac port, has two (or more) outputs, into which you can then plug 
>two (or more) devices.  When you want to switch from, say, using a color
>monitor to using a midi system, you just switch the leads.
>
>Ben.

Becuase Nubus cards are intelligent devices and the mac is not going to
appreciate someone throwing a switch and then not being able to find it's
monitor (or whatever) but finding something that wasn't there before.

Smae thing happens when you pull a Nubus card from a running mac - the mac
will instantly (usually) go boom.

You would have to switch them with the power off, and we all know that
if someone marketed such a switch, then someone would blow one of their
boards when they switched it with the power on and then there would be
lawsuits......

Sorry, I'm in a rambling mood.

Blacksheep
Senior Systems Engineer

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