Blue box

[ewx]

I appear to have acquired a Cobalt Qube. It's very pretty, but currently useless as it's not got a mains adapter. Assuming for the time being that the person I got it off does't pipe up and say they found it, I'm going to have to either buy one (from where?) or bodge some other power supply into service (something for which I have no relevant experience).

So far I've found someone repurposing an HP adapter, a description of the pins and a picture of the missing object.

Comments

[pjc50.livejournal.com]

12V 4A you say? Possibilities are:

- use an AT/ATX power supply if you have one lying around
- get one from Maplin e.g. http://www.maplin.co.uk/Search.aspx?criteria=L10BR&DOY=5m9
- see what you can get from Computer Resale on Mill Road

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

Ah. I must get round to putting Debian onto my Qube...
Along with a reasonably sized hard disk.

I'm very tempted to replace the nasty DIN-stype power plug with a more sensible ring-and-tip laptop-stylee one. What were they thinking when they spec'ed that one?

How much RAM do you have? I have spare stick of the largest DIMM that it will take, if you want it...

[mhoulden.livejournal.com]

Dunno if it's any help, but Cobalt were bought out by Sun a few years back so a Sun dealer might have an old adaptor lying around.

The Cobalt software is now open sourced: http://bluequartz.org/