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Off topic slightly, years ago when I was working for a retailer as a project manager, as the most computer astute of our department, we were in the days before laptops. Heck, 1 year earlier when I started purchase orders were still being typed until I brought them forward a few years. Anyway, in a test they gave me a laptop to travel with - if successful we would all be carrying one. The laptop was actually a Lexmark. Serial number 00000002. It was a good laptop except fore the power adaptor. The strain relief failed and so did the cord while I was preparing for a pre-bid meeting the next morning in Shirlington, VA. I had to leave the hotel and find a Radioshack for emergency supplies to rectify the situation. Mission accomplished. We were issued IBM laptops - not Lexmark.

Peter
 
Off topic slightly, years ago when I was working for a retailer as a project manager, as the most computer astute of our department, we were in the days before laptops. Heck, 1 year earlier when I started purchase orders were still being typed until I brought them forward a few years. Anyway, in a test they gave me a laptop to travel with - if successful we would all be carrying one. The laptop was actually a Lexmark. Serial number 00000002. It was a good laptop except fore the power adaptor. The strain relief failed and so did the cord while I was preparing for a pre-bid meeting the next morning in Shirlington, VA. I had to leave the hotel and find a Radioshack for emergency supplies to rectify the situation. Mission accomplished. We were issued IBM laptops - not Lexmark.

Peter
I recall very well the exciting days with laptops early on spent trying to get the PCMCIA Dial-Up and Ethernet adaptors working!

And the dongles would always end up broken!
 
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