Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!funic!nntp.hut.fi!vipunen.hut.fi!mstr
From: mstr@vipunen.hut.fi (Markus Strand)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Power Supply for 286 compatible.
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.104106.19682@nntp.hut.fi>
Date: 12 Jun 91 10:41:06 GMT
References: <32691@rouge.usl.edu> <1991Jun11.200705.6733@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Sender: usenet@nntp.hut.fi (Usenet pseudouser id)
Reply-To: mstr@vipunen.hut.fi (Markus Strand)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology
Lines: 12
Nntp-Posting-Host: vipunen.hut.fi

In article <1991Jun11.200705.6733@nntp-server.caltech.edu> josephc@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Joseph Chiu) writes:
>As for 'electrical compatibility':  every motherboard
>I have come across (at least 'clone' makers, anyways) uses the same power
>connectors, and the voltages are the same. 

Some PC clones have the NC pin which is +5V on AT:s conected to
ground.  You have to pull out one cord if you connect a AT power
supply to one of these PC:s.  Sperry also made some PC:s with their
own conectors.


Markus Strand