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>buying a TP560 while he's here (since the current US price is ridiculously >low right now). I bought a used 760ED in New York and brought it back with me as IBM UK prices are literally pound for dollar. My latest comparison is the new 770:$6799 by American Mail order or $9700 (6000 pounds) here in the UK.... >(1) Will he have service problems when he returns to the UK? (My >impression > was that all he has to do is somehow reregister the machine...?) I haven't tried servicing this thinkpad yet but something essential I didn't do was get an "International Warranty Service Certificate". You need to register on: 1-800-497-7426 I've used the UK HelpWare support for some Win95 problems I was having. I explained I had an American thinkpad and all they wanted was my telephone number to log the call. >(2) How does he get the pound sign? (I assume that the Windows95 British English > setting will reassign some character to the pound - but, if it is the US dollar > sign, what happens to programs like TeX which use this symbol?) > >Thanks, >David R. (ross@math.haawaii.edu) As a point of fact it maps to the "#" hash key but if you do use the British Win95 settings other keys don't map properly and cause problems, such as the "\" back slash key. It's usually next to the Z key in the UK: below backspace in the US. I only really use the pound key in business letters. For this I use Character Map, by copying the pound key to the clipboard, then pasting into Word. I hope this helps! Jon Cleary Milton Keynes, UK