On May 12, 2005, at 9:09 AM, Alan B. Pearce wrote:

> A company I worked for had a laptop and
> one of those LCD displays you put on an overhead projector, both made 
> by
> Sharp. The two items had almost identical looking mains supplies with
> identical connectors for the DC out

cisco IP phones of some vintage apparently used a 48V DC power supply
whose connector is pretty much the same as the laptops in use at the 
same
time (probably 16V.)  Entertainment happened when there was a big 
building
move (throw your phone, keyboard, power supplies, etc into a box, then 
take
them out at your new cube/office and put them back together...)

  :-)
BillW

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