Michael A. Terrell wrote:

Jeff Liebermann wrote:

On Sun, 14 Oct 2012 16:47:03 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:

Every US tech needs at least one of these:
http://cheezburger.com/6610534656

Hmmm.... It won't fit:
http://i380.photobucket.com/albums/oo246/gblentz/SuicidePlug.jpg


You know those are only installed in lawyer's homes.

There was actually a device called "the moving cable" at a 1990s ISP I
worked at that had a normal power plug connected to a male IEC connector.
It had the obligatory electrical tape "lump" of a splice as you'd expect
to see in something like that.

The end was shrouded so no pins were completely exposed, but the idea was
you could move computers between racks, live by supplying power into the
monitor power out socket that old power supplies had while unplugging the
normal power connector.

I never got to witness it's use, but am still surprised everybody that did
always fed power it power from the correct phase.