[Info-vax] Quiet?

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <t26q8v$kdj$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
<clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 

> The nice thing about hardware these days is that the power supplies
> are much more standard than they used to be so replacing them in
> the future should be easier than replacing power supplies in old
> equipment is at the moment.

True, but in this case it is an SSB power supply, i.e. a brick like the 
disks.  I don't think that they make new ones.

> For the low power equipment, I also approve of the movement towards
> using a USB port as the power mechanism as that gets rid of the old
> custom and non-standard external power supplies problem.

Indeed.  That has been an EU requirement for mobile phones (and maybe 
some other "mobile devices") for a while now.