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From: yann@ai.toronto.edu (Yann le Cun)
Subject: Re: Taking my Amigas to Japan
Message-ID: <1988Feb22.182431.12924@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto, AI group
References: <8802050159.AA11570@jade.berkeley.edu>
Date: Mon, 22-Feb-88 18:24:31 EST

In article <4400@eagle.ukc.ac.uk> kjws@ukc.ac.uk (K.J.W.Smithers) writes:
>In article <8802050159.AA11570@jade.berkeley.edu> 4526P@NAVPGS.BITNET ("LT Scott A. Norton, USN") writes:
>>In a few months, I'll be moving to Yokosuka, Japan, to my next shipboard
>>assignment, and I'll be taking my two Amigas along.

>	I successfully took my Amiga 1000 out to Japan (Tokyo) and had some
>interesting experiences. 
>	As for transporting the amigas I just wrapped mine up in my suitcase
>(no monitor) with my clothes and prayed, no-one had been willing to insure it!
>It arrived safetly and once I had it going it never gave me any trouble. 
>		Kit Smithers

I did that too when i moved from France to Canada. My PAL A1000 (with a 
PAL/RGB colour monitor) works fine with a transformer.
Remember that the video refresh rate is *NOT* related to the power frequency,

Yann le Cun                            yann@ai.toronto.edu, yann@ai.toronto.cdn
AI Group, Dept of Computer Science     yann%ai.toronto.edu@relay.cs.net
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