7 May
2008
7 May
'08
2:42 p.m.
But maybe it's just out of consideration for the not over rated PSU.
So it has not to deal with current peaks from starting and stopping the
floppy drive ;-)
That PSU has no prolems with the current peaks for the printer stepper
motors, or indeed, firing the thermal inkjet [1] cartridge. Or the head
load solennoid and head stepper motor in that disk drive. I can't believe
the startup spike of the spindle motor is a problem
[1] I am told that Thinkjet was a contraction of THermal INKJET.
I think there was a reason may EMI or something like
that..
The machine is very well sheilded inside. Maybe that's the reason, but it
seems a litle unlikely.
Or it's just a engineering artifact they forgot to
fix.
That,a alas (after all, it's an HP) is the most likely reason.
-tony