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[Derek Martin]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 02:58:18PM -0500, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote:
> On Monday 28 March 2005 02:03 pm, Derek Martin wrote:
> > Only tangientially related to this...
> >
> > While I was in Korea, my old Dell laptop experienced catastrophic
> > failure (well, what REALLY happened was the power cable got caught on
> > something, forcefully yanking it out of the power receptacle on the
> > laptop, and breaking off the pins--making it impossible to power the
> > machine or charge the battery)...
> 
> You hit a soft spot on me here... I'm a big fan of my old Dell
> laptops

I like them too... except that the keyboard on this particular machine
is unusually clunky.  But then, I normally connected an external
keyboard to it, so it wasn't a huge problem.  I much prefer a
full-sized keyboard to any laptop's keyboard I've ever used...

> Anyway, my
> power connector on my last motherboard was screwed up just the same
> and I found a good cheap fix for it is the docking station.  

An excellent suggestion.  I'll have to look into that when I get the
chance...  Thanks!

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