21 Jan
2009
21 Jan
'09
4:43 a.m.
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