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From: hf3@sage.cc.purdue.edu (hf3)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: switch in the back (was: Re: VDT Electric Fields)
Summary: ps/2s with power switch extensions.
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Date: 23 Feb 91 02:37:56 GMT
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In article <4472@eastapps.East.Sun.COM>, gsteckel@vergil.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Steckel - Sun BOS Hardware CONTRACTOR) writes:
> I've seen advertisements for rear power modules where the user actuator is
> on the front.  An insulated mechanical linkage (read: long plastic rod) connec
> to the actual switch in the module.  Dunno how popular they are - anybody
> out there know?

I once saw an ibm ps/2 with the top off somewhere. I had always just assumed 
for some strange reason that they had some funny power supply that ran all the
way down the right side of the machine -- the power switch is a nice big thing
on the very front. But it turns out that it's just connected by a long rod like
you describe all the way to a standard supply at the back. 


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