Re: What's taters?

In article <pan.2005.11.15.23.23.01.472920@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
Neil Barnes <nailed_barnacle@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 22:03:36 +0000, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
>
>
>> You realize, Hal, that the number of adapter thingies we have in
>> this house would not register as "not all that many" to most
>> people?
>
>Yersss...

I didn't include the items that have just cord-and-plug, since the
discussion (at that moment) concerned power-blocks....

>Looking around here - and bearing in mind I had a wall knocked out two
>days ago and the job is still in progress - I see:
>
>Nixie clock

Ooohhh....is the cycle counting ligic vacuum tubes, too?
(The simplest way to make an accurate electric or electronic clock
is to let the power company do the hard part. If you can count AC
cycles, just divide by appropriate numbers and--voila!--you have a
clock.)

>TV
>DVD player
>Printer
>Little amp/speakers

All those things, plus others, have internal power supplies, in the
sense that there is no external "brick" to do voltage conversions.

--
Hal Heydt
Albany, CA

My dime, my opinions.
.

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