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Non-NEC Console Related Discussion => Console Chat => Topic started by: guyjin on July 10, 2007, 11:38:36 AM
Title: cord-brick-cord
Post by: guyjin on July 10, 2007, 11:38:36 AM
Was the TG16 the first console to use a cord-brick-cord setup for it's power supply?
It's not my ideal type of power supply (internal is, like the DC or Saturn) but it's better than the traditional AC adapter.
Title: Re: cord-brick-cord
Post by: Joe Redifer on July 10, 2007, 12:36:37 PM
First in the ENTIRE WORLD? Probably not. But its the first that I ever saw. It confused me. I'd rather have a ton of little bricks over the entire length of the cord rather than one huge brick randomly stuck in the middle.
Title: Re: cord-brick-cord
Post by: nodtveidt on July 10, 2007, 03:28:57 PM
I don't recall any previous consoles using an inline-transformer-type power supply. I believe the TG16 may have been the first (and only, I've never seen one since use one either).
Title: Re: cord-brick-cord
Post by: guyjin on July 10, 2007, 03:43:50 PM
Both the Wii and 360 use 'em.
Title: Re: cord-brick-cord
Post by: nat on July 10, 2007, 04:36:25 PM
The first revision of the Apple //c used a goofy inline AC adapter like that. Not a console, I know, but still...
Soon after, Apple realized the engineer who designed that part of the Apple //c was suffering from mental disease and all computers should have internal power supplies, so they fixed it in subsequent revisions.
Title: Re: cord-brick-cord
Post by: Dark Fact on July 10, 2007, 05:06:00 PM
wow, bricks and cords can lead to mental breakdowns? That's pretty flippin' disturbing. I know cords can be a pain in the ass to untangle and stuff away but mental breakdowns?
And this is coming from a guy who almost had a mental breakdown when he didn't know how to use a can opener one time.
Title: Re: cord-brick-cord
Post by: Turbo D on July 10, 2007, 08:49:08 PM
I think my retarded gamecube has a brick 'n' cord.
Title: Re: cord-brick-cord
Post by: Keranu on July 10, 2007, 08:49:36 PM
Yeah I'm pretty sure Gamecube has one as well.
Title: Re: cord-brick-cord
Post by: Joe Redifer on July 10, 2007, 08:59:49 PM
Yeah, the Gamecube has one.
Yes, my post here is pretty useless since two others have already confirmed it, but I know you all were waiting for MY thoughts on the Gamecube power brick subject.
Title: Re: cord-brick-cord
Post by: SignOfZeta on July 11, 2007, 01:19:07 PM
That depends on weather or not you consider the C64 a console or not.
Title: Re: cord-brick-cord
Post by: nodtveidt on July 11, 2007, 01:35:22 PM
That depends on weather or not you consider the C64 a console or not.
Good call. I never think of it as one, but it was originally supposed to be one, but then they slapped on a keyboard at the last minute and called it a Personal Computer.
Title: Re: cord-brick-cord
Post by: WoodyXP on July 21, 2007, 11:12:01 PM