Re: American PC power supplies in Japan: a survey
" Louise Bremner" <dame_zumari@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> porpoise <fantasticgoods@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > To reassure myself, I'd like to ask if anyone has personal (or 2nd
> > hand) experience with bringing a desktop and running it on 100V (I'm
> > just interested in the desktop's power supply....
>
> Not a desktop, but many years ago, when 1200-baud was bleeding-edge, I
> bought a US-made modem that refused to work without a step-up
> transformer. Mind you, it didn't work too well even then.
>
Ah...the disco days....!
BTW I thought all PCs worldwide were optional 115v/230v
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