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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> In a message dated 10/7/01 1:20:23 AM,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> <<
> If you see a used supply for your Powerbook on sale, buy it even if
> yours is working fine today. They're hard to find, and valuable.
> >>
>
> Truer words were never spoken (OK, written).
>
> I bought a few 500 "bricks" for $10 each, just because they were "orphans"
> (i.e., they had lost their PB).
>
> Much later, I bought a few PB500s for $50 each, just because *they* were
> orhpans (i.e., they had lost their "brick").
>
> I'd say $60, total, for a PB540c was a pretty good price, no?
>
> But it's true, you can never have too many spare "bricks" (even if you
never
> find a matching PB for it).
I have 3 briscks for my 3400. One is it's standard, the other 2 are G3
bricks (smaller). The 3400 brick stays plugged in so that my 3400 always
has wall current readily available. One of the G3 plugs is in my targus
case, and the other is in storage in case of the other 2 crapping out.
-doktorboring
[still in mourning for my city's skyline.]
AIM- doktor242
MSN & Yahoo- doktorboring
www.mp3.com/c6h6
"You can't break a free man. The worst you can do is kill him."
---Robert A. Heinlein
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