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From: sakw@cvaxa.UUCP (Sak Wathanasin)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Help: Travelling with a Mac
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Date: Tue, 10-Jun-86 16:45:14 EDT
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I brought a Mac with me from the USA to the UK. It was in one of the MacBags
(I forget which) and I took it on board as hand-luggage. I remember Apple's
advertisement which implied that it would fit into the overhead compartment:
well, they didn't lie - just forgot to mention that they meant the FIRST
CLASS cabin. (It's an easy mistake to make - doesn't everyone who has a Mac
travel first class? :-)

I checked in the IW which was also in one of the MacBags; both Mac & IW
survived with no problems, but I wouldn't like to do it again. It's the hassle
- much better to get one of those reinforced cases.

As for power supply, I built a box around an off-the-shelf 240 -> 120v
toroidal transformer in a couple of hours.  There's no problem with the 50/60
hz difference - the Mac is designed (so I read somewhere) to cope with such
variations. The IW is still running off the transformer (about 2 yrs now).
The Mac ran for > 6 mths on the transformer without problems (clock was
ok), but I swapped the PSU when I upgraded to 512K. Apple UK wouldn't honour
the guarantee on the US Mac (had a problem with the keyboard).         

One last thing - you may have problems with customs at both ends: at the US end
you may have to sign the export licence agreement; at the other end
you may have to pay import duty (it's reclaimable if you leave the within a
certain time - 6 mths for the UK).

Happy travelling!
-- 
Sak Wathanasin, U of Sussex, Cognitive Studies, Falmer, Sussex BN1 9QN, UK
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