I've been searching for that oval plug as well, I have 1 cord and three items that use it. But, While searching I found the cord for MicroVaxIII's that has the high current cut-out in it. http://www.dealtime.com searching for "power cord" Yielded http://www.techdepot.com/product.asp?productid=27873&affid=673 http://www.computers4sure.com/product.asp?productid=27873&affid=673 John A.

Who would have known it; I unearthed a box that I had that contains a product by Sun Microsystems , ca. 1987: "TOPS: All software required to transform a Macintosh into a TOPS network station". Essentially it seems like Sun wrote an ethertalk driver and an appleshare daemon for Sun workstations as well as an appletalk solution (interface, driver, file sharing and laserprep clients) for PC compatibles and some extra software for the mac as well. Some of the blurb in the box is reproduced at the end of the message. Anyway, I have three comments and a question: 1) I did not know that Sun made unix/pc/mac compatible solutions that early; my experience with such products was limited to Sun's PC-NFS, which I liked a lot at the time. 2) Why the name TOPS? Isn't that the name of an OS used in some PDP's, such as the legendary SIMTEL-20? 3) Inside the box, I found exactly the kind of appletalk connector that I ended up building from a Farallon phonenet connector a few days ago. And the question: Tne macintosh diskettes in the box carry the following legend in the trademark attribution section: "Macintosh is a trademark of McIntosh Laboratory, Inc., licensed to Apple Computer, Inc." So did McIntosh sue Apple over trademark infringement and win? Did Apple eventually buy the Macintosh trademark from McIntosh? I never knew about this; please clarify what happened. Regards, carlos. TOPS box blurb: Connect to other computers: TOPS opens up a whole new world of possibilities. You can share files not only with other Macintosh stations, but with IBM PCs & compatibles, Sun workstations and other computers connected to the TOPS network. Share network resources: With TOPS, each network station can share its resources with every other station. Files accessed from a remote station look and behave just as if they were stored locally--even if the files are stored on a different kind of computer than the one you're using. Print spooling: TOPS includes a desk accessory called TOPS Spool that handles all postscript print jobs in the background as you continue to work. TOPS Spool is Pagemaker compatible. Convert file formats: TOPS includes an utility called TOPS Translators that converts file formats between many popular Macintosh and DOS applications. Requirements: Mac 512, 512Ke, Plus, SE or II, System 5.3 and Finder 3.2 or higher. Fully compatible with all AFP applications. -------------------------------------------------------------- Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo(a)nospammers.ieee.org