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From: dd2u@hudson.acc.virginia.edu (drucker david)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Computer to Africa
Keywords: IBM
Message-ID: <1865@hudson.acc.virginia.edu>
Date: 9 Aug 89 02:13:24 GMT
Organization: University of Virginia
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    Any answers to the following problem will be GREATLY
{_appreciated.
 
    We have a student who will be doing some research in Zimbabwe
Africa this fall. He would like to take over an IBM model 30
computer with an 8513 monitor. Zimbabwe uses 220 volt 50 Hz
power.
    IBM has been of very little assistance in finding out exactly
what we will need to do except to say the entire PS/2 line of
computers have the ability to recognize the power supply it is
{attached to and adjust. Nothing needs to be changed in the
computer except to get a power cord with the right type of plug
xDend on it (which they do not have).
    The monitor however must first be plugged into a step down
transformer and then into the 220 power supply.
 
    So the question is, what do we really need to have/do with
this computer and monitor to make it all work correctly without
blowing up this that and the other thing.
    If IBM is correct does anyone know where I can get the
correct type of power cord and any suggestion on a step down
transformer for the monitor.
 
    I am open to suggestions, helpful hints and actual
experiences from others. Please respond in any fashion that will
get to me. Thanks.
 
 
David Drucker
Curry School of Education - UVA
BitNet - DD2U@virginia.bitnet
xD(804-0822