hams on classiccmp

[Gordon JC Pearce MM3YEQ]

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