[l008com]

You know those cables that older beige Macs used to power up monitors? They would plug into the back of your Mac's power supply and the other end into the Monitor, so your monitor would automatically go on and off with the computer? And the smart mac user figured out that you put hook other thing up instead, like another computer, or even your cable modem of this Mac was your Router/Server. Well I'm looking to find a few of these cables, but the catch is I don't want the normal long length, I want really short ones, no more than 12" long. They don't have them in Cyberguys, anyone know where I can get them like this, without making them myself :-D

[tadd]

back in the early 90s a friend of mine bought a power strip that did this. Whatever you plugged into the RED socket would be watched by the strip. If it was drawing real power, the BLUE sockets would all come on. THus when you turned off your computer, the laser printer, monitors, etc.. were powered off automatically.

Alas, when I decided I wanted one we couldn't find anything like it. I've had my eyes open for a decade for another.

Your request is the first time I've heard of anything like it since then. Please write to this forum (or alert me via AIM) when you find one!

THanks.

[mac-at-kearsarge]

Although I don't know where to find shortned lengths, I know you can easily find these at Best Buy ( and probably circuit City or Radio Shack). They are labeled as "Extension Computer power cables" (Or something similar) and have the male on one end and the female on the other of the standard Computer cable. I se two of them on my two mac servers that have pass-through power (I did this so much for the benfit of turning off moniters, but because of lack of avalible outlets.

I'm curious, why do you want such short legnths (Cable managment?)? The ones at Best Buy are standard length (for computer power cables).

[l008com]

Because I am also chaining a bunch of computers together, and these computers are stacked right on top of each other, and basically yes cable management, having an extra 5 feet of cable per machine scrunched up in a ball makes things kind of a pain. But I guess thats what zip ties are for, because i don't think there are such thing as short ones, so I just ordered a few long ones.