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On Tue, 10 Feb 1998 15:04:33 -1000, David Ross wrote: >Axel Hartmann wrote: > >>computers should be interchangeable. Except the UK, and you mentioned >>London. The outlets there require plugs that make most Thinkpad power >supplies >>look small and have a built in fuse. > >This reminds me - if you buy a plug shape converter over here (US) for use in >the UK, it will *not* be fused, and will work well. If you buy a converter >in England, it will almost surely be the fuse kind, and will often be sold >sans fuse. (This really had me stumped when I moved to England some years >back.) Just a warning, in case the original poster decides to keep flight >travel weight down by not buying one of the elephantine UK adapters until >getting there. > >>be careful with the power converters, though. > >The poster should *not* buy a power converter; the stock 560 brick handles >the Eurocurrent well (though I wonder if the higher current would decrease >the long-term life span of a US-spec power brick). > I doubt it. Power spikes, surges, brownouts, etc. might make a difference, though. -- Paul Khoury <pkhoury@loop.com> http://pkhoury.dyn.ml.org (If you get an error, then the server is not online) Current system statistics: The Operating System/2 Version is 4.00 Revision 9.029 There are 22 Processes with 82 Threads. This machine's uptime is 0d 22h 59m 22s 898ms.