Re: No external power jack

Cysgod Yr Arth (kelly@vu.com)
Mon, 13 May 1996 12:24:42 -0600 (MDT)

On Fri, 10 May 1996, Lee Whitty wrote:

> What was HP thinking when they left an external power jack off the Omnigo?
> I have a PCMCIA modem that I use with Omnicom, and it works great for about
> 15 minutes until the batteries die. Does anyone have a creative solution
> for rigging up a power jack without totally destroying the unit? I'm
> tempted to rewire 2 unused pins on the serial port to do just this.

How about stripping the pins off of one of those Universal power adapters
and taping the +ve and -ve leads to the appropriate pads on the OmniGo?

Desparate problems call for desparate measures...

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