Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!pacbell!ames!haven!uvaarpa!hudson!dd2u 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 Lines: 35 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