[mythtv-users] Desk Top Power

[Stephen Villano]

Those old transformers *were* good as boat anchors.
That was way back when linear and digital cohabitated in an uneasy truce.

On 5/18/15, Mike Carron <jmcarron at starstream.net> wrote:
> -----Original Message-----From: Michael Watson
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> Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 10:37:35 +1000
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> Yes you are correct.  But they are not transformer based PSUs.  So what
> I should have said to be correct is "Not seen a PC PSU that is
> transformer based in several decades"
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> If I remember correctly the power supply for very early PCs was a linear
> unit featuring a mains frequency transformer
> which for any respectable power output was very large and popularly called a
> boat anchor. I built one PC power supply
> in the 1970s that had one of those transformers and it weighed around 20
> pounds.
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> mike
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