Re: cigarette lighter adapter for my TP?

[Don Whiteside <dwhite@shadow.net>]

On Wed, 31 Jul 1996, mykle hansen wrote:

> hi.  i've been thinking about taking a road trip with the
> 'pad, and i wonder if any of you have experience with using
> a cigarette lighter adapter with an IBM laptop.

I have one. Used it for a long time to charge the thinkpad while driving. 
And, in fact, I am now selling it.

Hold onto your britches though - I'm asking $80 till someone convinces me 
that's unreasonable. I paid roughly $145 for it, which I thought was 
unreasonable, but I think that's still the asking price. I'm willing to 
listen to competitive offers, but below a certain point it's not worth 
unloading it - I still have the pad, but have little need to run it in 
the car anymore.

Anyone not concerned about the IBM name might, as someone else mentioned, 
look into an AC inverter. Be careful when you buy it to make sure it can 
handle the ampere draw - some of those inverters are not up to the 1A 
that the adaptor pulls at max load. They do make them, and probably for 
less than $80, to be perfectly honest.

Interested parties can email me for further discussion.