28 May
2009
28 May
'09
4:58 a.m.
At 02:23 PM 5/27/2009, Tony Duell wrote:
110V AC supplies are not uncommon in the UK. The reason
is that
industrial portable power tools (electric drills, etc) are 110V, [...]
The transformers are normally in bright yellow plastic boxes (yellow
being the colour associated with 110V on connectors, etc), and are rated
at about 3kVA (there are much larger ones, that's the smallest you'll
easily find). They're not cheap, but an awful lot of hacker-types will
have one.
Interesting! I had no idea. So this is how they'll run US classic
computers?
- John