Re: taking thinkpad 701c on ski vacation

["Guy Farrell" <gfarrell@oasis.vpia.uconn.edu>]

> From:          Jane Loyless <jloyless@globalvision.net>
> Date:          Fri, 22 Dec 1995 11:18:54 EST
> Subject:       Re: taking thinkpad 701c on ski vacation

> One of our managers left a TP750CS overnight in a car trunk in NJ last   
> winter when the temperature was well below freezing.  I don't know what   
> measures were taken to warm it up the next morning, but the screen had   
> to be replaced.  I'd be real careful.
>   
> Jane

Any number crunching materials specialists out there know at what 
temperature liquid crystal displays freeze?  Or even better: At 
what temperature does the shrinkage of the metal pieces in a TP hard 
drive exceed read/write head misalignment tolerances?  Is it the 
disproportionate shrinkage between aluminium and steel?

Or can ThinkPads get just too damn cold!? : )

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