On Saturday, April 6, 2002, at 01:37 AM, Robert Patterson wrote:
> It occurs to me that after Atari went out of business...I remember that
> a lot
> of techies and experimenters bought lots of them to use in other
> devices,
> most usually, external hard drives, or as gerry-rigged replacement power
> supplies in other computers. Maybe even compact Macs.
They were direct replacements, if they hadn't been then they wouldn't
have bought them, they were not into jury-jigging, these things were
used in places where Health and Safety were of at least some concern.
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