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> I don't think the 560 comes with an international warranty if purchased in the
> States/Canada. If I'm not mistaken, the 3 year international warranty is only
> available on IBM's high end notebooks, namely the 700 series. When I
> travelled to Europe (Ireland), IBM repaired my 720 without any questions asked
> and even provided with a spare while I was working there. Although I've heard
> many people bash IBM's service, I think there are worse vendors out there.
>
> As for the British pound symbol, Windows 95 can offer the UK keyboard layout
> if that is what your friend is used to using. International keyboard layouts
> are available and easily configurable.
>
> ... patrick
>
> > At 10:11 AM 10/24/97 HST, you wrote:
> > >(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?)
> >
> > I don't really know, but I had always assumed that the Pound Sign (#) would be
> > converted to the Pound Sign (£). I'm pretty sure I've seen keyboard layouts
> > that had the Pound Sterling symbol as Shift-3.
> >
> > Actually, my guess is that they would (assuming the use of Win95) be using the
> > appropriate keyboard layout, as defined in the Language setting of the
> > Keyboard properties in the Control Panel. He would pretty much ignore the
> > legend actually screened onto the physical keys. (I'd suggest a few removable
> > labels, with the "true" meanings, until he gets used to them.) -- Ron.
> >
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