Re: Where to find a Buggie PSU/cable now?

[Richard Kilpatrick <delorean@NOSPAMbtconnect.com>]

On 21/10/04 3:07 pm, in article cl8frd$tds$1@rumours.uwaterloo.ca, "Tim
Haynes" <timhaynes@no.spam.please.alumni.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

> 
> "Richard Kilpatrick" <delorean@NOSPAMbtconnect.com> wrote in message
> BD9D3436.19FEC%delorean@NOSPAMbtconnect.com">news:BD9D3436.19FEC%delorean@NOSPAMbtconnect.com...
>> On 21/10/04 6:23 am, in article
>> 20041021012330.24216.00002242@mb-m10.aol.com, "Michael J. Mahon"
>> <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Richard Kilpatrick wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I can source a PC/AT
>>>> PSU no problem; I have one here modified for powering an A1200 for
> example -
>>>> I just need the cable and details on how to make it not blow up my
> IIgs!
>>> 
>>> There's no secret sauce--just Google for the respective pinouts and
>>> hook them up.
>>> 
>>> If you have a "dead" power supply, you have a connector already
>>> wired, ready to splice (neatly) to the AT supply.
>> 
>> That's part of the problem, I don't have a dead PSU ;)
>> 
>> (Yet. But I was recently offered a RAMKeeper and two GS-RAM Plus cards
> with
>> SlotMover. How much drain do you think that lot would put on my poor
> IIgs?)
> 
> Well, given that the RamKeeper has an external power connector and you can
> plug it directly into a wall socket (thus bypassing the IIg's PSU), I would
> say very little.
> 
> A power adapter from a Sega Master System console game system will work, and
> can be had on eBay quiet cheaply (I got one for $2 plus shipping).

Does that power all of the RAM? That didn't even occur to me!

Richard
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