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Re: Boeing's Connexion announcement

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Sun Oct 15 14:53:40 2006

Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 13:52:41 -0500
From: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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Once upon a time, Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net> said:
> Into which the laptop user plugs the inverter he has in his carry-on 
> that he bought for use in the rental car, producing 115vac (240 if from 
> Europe).  Into this he plugs the laptop SMPS, into which he plugs the 
> laptop.  Horribly inefficient, but that's the way Joe Sixpack does it. 
> He probably doesn't have much of a choice.

My Thinkpad power brick has both AC and DC (car/airline) power cables.
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Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.

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