Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!purdue!decwrl!vixie
From: vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Telebit Trailblazer versions
Message-ID: <8@gnome6.pa.dec.com>
Date: 19 Oct 88 10:09:31 GMT
References: <1364@neoucom.UUCP> <1988Oct11.165614.25645@utzoo.uucp> <327@ivucsb.UUCP>
Organization: DEC Western Research Lab
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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.

Well, one thing that doesn't seem to have come up in this discussion, despite
the subject line, is that the Telebit Trailblazers put the brick in the middle
of the cord rather than at the plug-end.  Thus the transformer has two cables
hanging out of it; one for AC input, one for (DC?) low-voltage output.

This means that you only need room on the floor, you can use a standard power
strip with closely spaced outlets.  This is one more way in which I've been
spoiled by the Telebit modems -- I will be very hard to sell on a modem with
the old Vadic 345X style of transformer -- where you give up four outlets on
your power strip just to plug the darned thing in.
-- 
Paul Vixie
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