borton@fwi.uva.nl (Chris Borton) (11/17/89)
paryavi@harris.cis.ksu.edu (Saiid Paryavi) writes: >In article <13524@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> ghe@nucthy.physics.orst.edu (Guangliang He) writes: >>In a previous article I wrote: >>> Mac will work with 50Hz 220V power withOUT a >>> transformer. At least a Mac plus will. >> >>That was WRONG. As Werner Uhrig <werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu> pointed >>out in a private mail, directly use 220 power on a Mac+ will damage it. >>Sorry for the inaccurate information. Hope it did not do any damage. I >>tried to cancel that article but I couldn't find it. >> >The Macintosh Hardware Reference says that by flipping a switch on the >analog board of the Mac+, you can set it to take 220V input. >Can someone confirm this? That is true, but ONLY for the INTERNATIONAL Mac Plus version. Beware--there is an American analog board AND an international. I know from hard experience that they're different, and clipping the lead (not flipping the switch) on the American power supply and then giving it 220V resulted in a pretty but short fireworks display and killing the breaker switches for the entire dorm floor :-(. -cbb Chris Borton borton@fwi.uva.nl Mac Developer & AppleTalk Network Administrator, University of Amsterdam CS