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From: tomm@hpspdra.spd.HP.COM (Tom Menten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Can Laptops be powered from Car Batteries?
Message-ID: <18820001@hpspdra.spd.HP.COM>
Date: 6 May 91 16:47:49 GMT
Organization: HP Stanford Park - Palo Alto, CA
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(With apologies, if this is an old question.)

I would like to find take a laptop on a fishing boat; it needs to 
run from the 12v system on the boat, since there is no regular
access to 120v AC.  

Surely, there must be many users running their laptops from car
batteries, yes?  Yet folks at the local computer warehouse type store
seem to think this is an esoteric question.  Are there standard
solutions someone can tell me about?

Regards,
Tom Menten