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Subject: power packs on //, Mac
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Date: Tue, 21-Oct-86 02:30:44 EDT
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My roommate, an Apple // owner since 1980 (first a //+, now a //e) and I were
talking about the IIGS when he commented that the power pack on the GS was the
same as in his //e, and the same as in the //+. He also commented that he did
not need a surge protector on his //e (as I have one on my Mac +) because of
how well his power pack was built. He also maintains that above a surge of
approx. 150 volts, the Mac power source would go boom, where his would take it.
Also, that his computer would take no damage, where the Mac might.
   The only experience that we have is when a friend of ours had his Mac smoke
at one of CMU's dorms, after a faulty line carried 220 volts to the computer,
taking out all electrical devices. After a check, the only damage to the Mac
was burned insulation on the incoming power line.
   Finally, he maintains that the power pack in the // series is SMALLER by
components, as if you had to box it, the pack would end up bigger from the Mac.
   Well, can any of the gurus of the hardware world (HELP APPLE CORP.) answer/
refute my roommate (a senior EE that I have always felt knew what he was doing)
?????????
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 George A. Brownfield
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 The Pennsylvania State University

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