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- From: keating@rtsg.mot.com (Edward Keating)
- Subject: Re: WARNING: USR vs ADB
- Message-ID: <keating.720981717@galena13>
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- Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
- References: <searsk-031192182938@3.7.192.225>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 16:41:57 GMT
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- searsk@med.ge.com (Kevin D. Sears) writes:
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- >While my son was helping me setup a PowerBook for a business trip, he
- >unknownly plugged the power supply of a USR Courier V.32bis(model 0094)
- >modem into the Apple Desktop Bus which fried the PB. I know I should have
- >been watching him more closely so its my fault.
-
- >However, it seems to be a poor choice on USR's part to pick a connector for
- >power which has been a standard in the computer industry since 1987 for a
- >data bus. At InterOp, I brought this situation to USR's attention. I hope
- >they make better choices on their up and coming products.
-
- Perhaps it is a chicken and the egg problem. My original HST manual has a
- copyright date of 1986. The modem has a 1987 date on the bottom.
- Isn't the same plug used on the original PC and PC/AT for the keyboard?
- Perhaps Apple should have used a mini-DIN connector instead??
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