On Wednesday 21 January 2009 07:43:36 am Gordon JC Pearce MM3YEQ wrote:
On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 06:37 -0500, Roy J. Tellason
wrote:
Of the two laptops here, I have one of each of
those, this Sony having
the two-pin variant and the Dell I was using before that having the
three-pin variant. At one point I had the Dell with me but not the cord
(and the battery on that one is unusable) and I had no difficulty in
finding one to use.
"Figure 8" leads will fit "cloverleaf" sockets anyway, at a pinch.
Since the PSU is double-insulated it makes no difference whether the
earth is connected.
This has saved one IBM techie at least from embarrassment after turning
up with the adaptor but not the cloverleaf lead for his thinkpad at an
important talk...
Gordon
Well, yeah, but I didn't own this Sony at the time, unfortunately... :-)
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