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- From: gurman@umbra.gsfc.nasa.gov (Joseph B. Gurman)
- Subject: Re: Powerbook in France
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- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 21:50:25 GMT
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- chaffee@ohsu.edu (Alex Chaffee) writes:
-
- >I'm about to go on a trip to France for a week or two, and I'm going to
- >take
- >my Powerbook 170. What do I need to know about plugging it into the wall
- >there?
- >I've heard that I just need to get a wall adapter, and the computer
- >will take care of converting from 220V to 110V (or whatever it needs). Is
- >this
- >true? Does it also apply to the battery charger (the 2-battery one from
- >Apple)?
- >Anything else you think I should know?
-
- Alex -
- Your return address didn't work for e-mail, so I'm posting this to
- the net instead. (Who knows how many thousand of PowerBook owners may be
- headed to France for the coldest and wettest time of year....)
-
- If you look at the business side of the power adapter (for either
- your PowerBook or your battery charger --- it's the same power adapter),
- you'll see that it's happy at 100 - 240 v and 50/60 Hz. Yes, indeed, you
- only need the $8 (?) set of plug adapters that Radio Shack sells to use
- the power adapters in any country with AC power, France included.
- If you have an internal modem and intend to use it there, you should
- make a beeline for the closest Darty (consumer electronics) store and
- buy a cable with an RJ11 (standard U.S. modular phone) connector at one
- end and a "prise male" French phone connector (much larger) at the
- other. Mine cost 39 frs and works like a charm.
- I used my PowerBook 170 about 12 hours a day during my six months in
- France earlier this year. It's a very Mac-friendly country.
- Joe Gurman
-
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- J.B. Gurman / Solar Physics Branch / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center /
- Greenbelt MD 20771 USA / gurman@uvsp.gsfc.nasa.gov
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