29 Jun
2007
29 Jun
'07
9:48 a.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
IIRC, the HP-150C had the same kind of power switch. The 150A & B's had the
power switch on the back, next to the power connector.
It's been a loooong time since I took a 150C apart.
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jd
Bureaucrat, n.:
A person who cuts red tape sideways.
-- J. McCabe
On 6/26/07,
Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
The Amiga 3000 had that sort of thing, too... a
latching pushbutton
mounted right on the PSU, activated by a pushrod and a button on the
front of the machine. I think at the time, I heard it was to satisfy
Some of the HP disk and tape 'shoeboxes' (9133J, 9142, etc) did something
similar. There's an SMPSU board that runs the whole deptho of the case,
with the mains input connector soldered to it (when the PSU is in place,
this lines up with a hole in the case). The on-off switch is also near
the back of the PCB with a plastic pushrod linking it to the button on
the front.
The last
of the PS/2's had some strange designs.
I like that mechanical linkage running
from the front to a physical switch
at the rear. Now THAT had style.