Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Telebit Trailblazer versions
Message-ID: <1988Oct11.165614.25645@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1364@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 88 16:56:14 GMT

In article <1364@neoucom.UUCP> wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) writes:
>By the way, how's come only V.32 modems seem to come with built-in
>power packs.  I'm really fed up with all these dag gone bicks
>collecting on the floor or haning out of the wall sockets.

The bricks are very attractive to manufacturers because (as I understand
it) things like UL and CSA approval are much simpler if there is no
110V AC running around inside the box.  It also gets a major source of
heat out of the box, simplifying cooling.  By using a brick, one transfers
most of the safety issues and some of the cooling problems to the brick
manufacturer.  Inconvenient though they are for the customer -- after some
searching I've concluded that nobody makes a power bar with the outlets 
spaced far enough apart for even the smallest plug-in bricks -- they make
all kinds of sense from the manufacturer's viewpoint.
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