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May be everything is plug and play type so all the crew needed to do was
make sure everything was pluged in somewere and he just changed the numbers
in the controlling files so the main computer saw the wrong voltage for
control circuit 123 and gave it the voltage for power circuit xyz.

"Quadibloc" <jsavard DeleteThis @ecn.ab.ca> wrote in message
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> When you spoke of "Anthropomorphizing Computers", I thought that
> perhaps you were referring to Merlin from "The Excalibur Alternative".
>
> John Savard
>
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On Nov 11, 9:41 pm, "John McCallum" <delf....DeleteThis@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> May be everything is plug and play type so all the crew needed to do was
> make sure everything was pluged in somewere and he just changed the numbers
> in the controlling files so the main computer saw the wrong voltage for
> control circuit 123 and gave it the voltage for power circuit xyz.
>
> "Quadibloc" <jsav....DeleteThis@ecn.ab.ca> wrote in message
>
> news:1192404334.278950.178690@t8g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
>
> > When you spoke of "Anthropomorphizing Computers", I thought that
> > perhaps you were referring to Merlin from "The Excalibur Alternative".
>
> > John Savard


There is simply no good reason for two pieces of equipment that use
the same cable to not use it for exactly the same thing or tolerate
the exact same range of voltages and currents.

I will happily accept correction, but no has even offered a
potentially useful excuse for having radically different hardware
intefaces that use the same physical cable. All the plug and play
devices that I have heard of only work by using standard cables in
standard ways.
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On Nov 15, 5:18 am, "John McCallum" <delf... RemoveThis @yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> Damage control would be greatly simplified by this system as even almost
> totally unskilled workers could do the work with the computer getting a
> coded signal from the equipment down the cable then raising the voltage to
> what the equipment need based on the data listed for that code and that way
> you could have spare lines an sockets that are useable for any system when
> battle damage occurs.

How is that simpler for damage control than all equipment that accepts
the same plug uses the same pinout?

Thanks to power electronics and optoelectronics, the standard cable
for any equipment with a power rating less than 10 kilowatts has a
pair of conductors good for 500VDC and 20 amps and a fibre optic data
line. The equipment has an optical data transceiver and the power
electronics to convert 500VDC to whatever voltage and waveform that it
actually uses. If the available conductors are superconducting at
high temperatures and flexible, the standard cable can safely connect
anything-- in a bizarre emergency, you could unplug the forward
impeller ring to allow your laptop to get power and communicate with
the rest of the ship (although your laptops power supply will be a tad
large, if the standard voltage is in polykilovolts).
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Damage control would be greatly simplified by this system as even almost
totally unskilled workers could do the work with the computer getting a
coded signal from the equipment down the cable then raising the voltage to
what the equipment need based on the data listed for that code and that way
you could have spare lines an sockets that are useable for any system when
battle damage occurs.
<rlbell.nsuid.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Nov 11, 9:41 pm, "John McCallum" <delf....TakeThisOut@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>> May be everything is plug and play type so all the crew needed to do was
>> make sure everything was pluged in somewere and he just changed the
>> numbers
>> in the controlling files so the main computer saw the wrong voltage for
>> control circuit 123 and gave it the voltage for power circuit xyz.
>>
>> "Quadibloc" <jsav....TakeThisOut@ecn.ab.ca> wrote in message
>>
>> news:1192404334.278950.178690@t8g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
>>
>> > When you spoke of "Anthropomorphizing Computers", I thought that
>> > perhaps you were referring to Merlin from "The Excalibur Alternative".
>>
>> > John Savard
>
>
> There is simply no good reason for two pieces of equipment that use
> the same cable to not use it for exactly the same thing or tolerate
> the exact same range of voltages and currents.
>
> I will happily accept correction, but no has even offered a
> potentially useful excuse for having radically different hardware
> intefaces that use the same physical cable. All the plug and play
> devices that I have heard of only work by using standard cables in
> standard ways.
>
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