26 Nov
2011
26 Nov
'11
4:02 a.m.
On 26/11/11 01:54, David Riley wrote:
On Nov 25, 2011, at 20:28, Richard<legalize at
xmission.com> wrote:
IEC leads are ubiquitous in the UK for appliances with a significant
power draw (the smaller figure-of-eight leads do for lower power use).
Slang in the UK for an IEC lead is a 'kettle lead' - clearly that name
didn't come about by chance ;)
Mark.
In article<4ECFACD2.26142.156CA36 at
cclist.sydex.com>,
"Chuck Guzis"<cclist at sydex.com> writes:
Oh yeah, power cables. I have so many and
forget that other people don't; sometimes I'll go somewhere and don't bring
the cord and get weird looks when I act surprised that my hosts don't have spare
computer cords.
Interestingly enough, we got a new coffee percolator recently that has an IEC cord.
That's very convenient, because replacements for the old Farberware ones were getting
hard to find. I understand, though, that this is common practice in Europe for tea
kettles?
[...] Duplicates [of cables]
are squirreled away in boxes where I can forget about them.
Over the years
I've accumulated a huge number of power cords and a
variety of SCSI and serial cables.