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- From: limey@hri.com (Craig Hughes)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Supra/Computability modem export ban - more info!
- Message-ID: <7049@bigbird.hri.com.hri.com>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 15:35:07 GMT
- References: <1992Aug9.080645.2049@actrix.gen.nz> <BsvKHD.8AE@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <BsvKHD.8AE@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, berger@atropa (Mike Berger) writes:
- |> Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
-
- |> This brings up a question. I've been told that a lot of electrical
- |> items in England come without mains plugs because they're different
- |> in many places. So how do they use these stupid external wall-plug
- |> type power supplies?
-
-
- Nope; they're just being cheap buggers. Wall sockets in Britain have
- been of the standard 13 AMP 3 prong variety for many, many years. A few
- older houses still have the round pin 15 AMP sockets, but they're
- pretty rare these days.
-
- --craig
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