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From: fredex@wizvax.methuen.ma.us (Fred Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: power requirements for 286
Message-ID: <1020@wizvax.methuen.ma.us>
Date: 15 Jun 91 00:55:33 GMT
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Reply-To: fredex@wizvax.UUCP (Fred Smith)
Organization: Gilgut Enterprises
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>I asked this about a week ago and no one bothered to follow up on it, perhaps
>I'm talking to the wrong news group? if so please feel free to suggest another
>one, here goes:

Well, as has been said, this aint the right group . . . but, I am running
an XT clone which has one of those no-name Taiwanese 150W power supplies
in it (it is now over three years old) with TWO hard disks, two floppies,
two serial ports, an internal modem, two parallel ports, a math
co-processor, a bus mouse, hercules clone card, and Bernoulli Box (external).

I, too, wondered if the suppy was up to the task, but so far it hasn't
produced any smoke. (I must admit that I cheated--I replaced the original
teeny-weeny cooling fan with the mother of all fans which blows a regular
gale through the computer and roars like mad. At least it says cool!)

Fred Smith
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