Thanks to everyone who replied, here or privately. I have a lot to consider now.
> On Apr 5, 2024, at 12:13 PM, gregebert <gregeb...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > I've had battles with some of the strain-reliefs in the past. If they dont > break coming out, they often will when going back in so best to get some > spares if you can. This one survived. It came out surprisingly easily. > I'm not sure who adopted the IEC power connectors first, but they deserve a > Nobel prize in my opinion. I've laid in a supply of the earlier cords with the funky connector. The ones uses by HP etc. They work well but they're getting pretty scare and it's really hard to find ones with the polarity "un-reversed". And then there are the sockets that have broken. The insulator is a flimsy piece of phenolic. The less said about CD jewel cases the better. The most in-your-face obsolescent thing ever foisted on the public. Terry Bowman, KA4HJH "The Mac Doctor" https://www.astarcloseup.com “We’ve arranged a society on science and technology in which nobody understands anything about science and technology, and this combustible mixture of ignorance and power sooner or later is going to blow up in our faces. I mean, who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don’t know anything about it.”—Carl Sagan to Charlie Rose, May 27, 1996 (Sagan's last interview) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/CA23DFCF-91D6-4AC5-8E47-4BDCC93D7558%40gmail.com.
