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Re: laptops
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Allen Francom)
Tue Nov 26 23:05:14 1996
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 12:08:58 -0800 (PST)
From: Allen Francom <redhat_list@numedics.com>
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I ended up with a truckload of the same kinda bombs.
Altima and KLH were the brand names, and granted, they were old.
286 ? and 386/sx's.
Did you have any of the stinky kind of leaky bunch of batteries
in shrinkwrap silicon ? Or the case-popping sort of NiCad two-pounders ?
THX
-AEF
On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Doug McGarrett wrote:
> I almost burned my house down with a used laptop. It came without batteries.
> I bought batteries--the right kind, I'm pretty sure--and put them in. The
> computer charged them--and charged them--and charged them--until the
> batteries were all bent out of shape, the plastic case of the laptop partly
> melted, and the keyboard contacts adversely affected. There was something
> ferkokt in the charging circuit, obviously. What really p'd me off was that
> the guy who sold me the bomb certainly knew this, but did not tell me. He
> could easily have killed me. Caveat emptor! And good luck.... --doug
>
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