[Coco] Replacement power switch for coco3?

[Tim Fadden]

Well, isn't that funny, The way you described the AT&T 3B2 is how they 
work now.
Around and around it goes where it stops nobody knows!

Tim
On 4/6/2017 3:39 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> ________________________________________
> From: Coco [coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] on behalf of Dave Philipsen [dave at davebiz.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 6, 2017 6:10 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Replacement power switch for coco3?
>
> Of course almost all of our cellphone chargers and laptop power suplies, and etc, etc,  are guilty of the same thing.
>
> Yes, but times (and codes) have changed.  Another system from that era was the
> AT&T 3B2.  Originally it had a switch that turned the system on thru the motherboard
> and the "OFF" position sent a signal to the motherboard to powerdown so that the
> SYSV Unix could shutdown cleanly.  The government ordered all of them changed to
> have an on/off switch that physically cut the power when pushed.  I was working
> with a number of them that had to be "upgraded" by the boys from Bell Labs.
>
> bill
>


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Tim Fadden
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