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echo: locuser
to: Rod Speed
from: Russell Brooks
date: 1996-05-24 17:30:38
subject: netcomm online!

BG>> Are you completely mad?  I happen to have my external sitting in front

BG>> of me, lid off, as I type, and it not only measures at least 3x the size

BG>> of the internal, the entire board is tightly populated with a hell of a

BG>> lot more componentry than the internals. There is no free space at all.



RS>> So now you are attempting to run the line that say the Courier internal

RS>> and external are radically different electronically, even tho they use

RS>> the SAME SDL?  When the only real difference in functionality is the 

 RS> LEDs?



BG>> Yep.  The internal might work much the same, but electrically,

BG>> there are many differences, and these can clearly be seen when

BG>> an internal and an external's board are placed side by side.



BG>> although like you, I can't really see why.



Maybe, It is all in the name of Isolation.

Maybe that is why the externals are approved and the internals are not.

Half an acre between components, is real isolation.





Russell



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