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From: jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Is your battery REALLY necessary?
Keywords: Laptop, Portable
Message-ID: <260b032f.6a8a@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 24 Mar 90 05:18:39 GMT
References: <5448.26080b81@uwovax.uwo.ca> <1554@key.COM>
Reply-To: jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck)
Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
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>In article <5448.26080b81@uwovax.uwo.ca> trevorc@uwovax.uwo.ca writes:
>> I also have a SuperSport 286 from which the battery can be 
>> detached and that is the way it is always operated...

A word of caution is in order here.  Not all portables can be operated
with the battery removed and only the ac adapter connected.  Some may
be damaged this way!  Read the fine print in your user manual carefully,
and if it doesn't say that it can or cannot be operated without the
battery in place, you are on risky ground if you try it.

-- 
John Dudeck                           "You want to read the code closely..." 
jdudeck@Polyslo.CalPoly.Edu             -- C. Staley, in OS course, teaching 
ESL: 62013975 Tel: 805-545-9549          Tanenbaum's MINIX operating system.