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From: jerry@olivey.olivetti.com (Jerry Aguirre)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Telebit Trailblazer versions
Message-ID: <30891@oliveb.olivetti.com>
Date: 17 Oct 88 22:35:02 GMT
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In article <1988Oct11.165614.25645@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>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

Actually, as others have pointed out, strips with the outlets as far a
one foot apart are available.  Of course locating one modem every foot
tends to use up a little more space...

What I would like to find is a strip with the outlets rotated 90
degrees.  Most of the power modules I have seen stick way out in the
direction that the ground pin is located.  This is what keeps them from
being mounted close together.  They are usually desiged to mount on a
wall outlet and hang down from it, not teribly convenient if you have
several at one location.

It is less convenient, but not significantly more difficult, for the
outlet strip makers to mount them with the ground pin along one side.
I could then plug in a power module at every location of a normally
spaced outlet strip.

The other alternative is for the power module to have a short AC cord.
I have several modems using this type and can make full use of
conventional outlets.  One can duplicate this by buying a short
extension cord to use between the module and the strip.  The problem
with this is that it adds more wires to an already messy situation.

			Jerry Aguirre