Well my power supply for my home puter is decidedly ill. I can't find one for under $100 and my patch job went kablooey on me. So to everyone with whom I am way behind on correspondence, my apologies;). And to the rest of ya folks-I guess I'll do a little snoopy dance when I get this situation all straightened out. In the meantime, be nice, and don't play in the chemtrails! See ya!!!!

-- Doreen (animalwaitress@yahoo.com), January 30, 2002

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Sorry about your power supply, Doreen. I recently bought a UPS, and it's reputedly a good one, for about $69. I bought it to avoid all the freezing up my computer was doing, after hearing about how poor the quality of the power is out here in the sticks!

-- joj (jump@off.c), January 31, 2002.

Doreen, a power supply for a regular type PC should not cost $100! I recently bought a cabinet complete with power supply for about US$42.

-- john hill (john@cnd.co.nz), February 01, 2002.

Well, this is one of those times that I wish I had the IBM format. I have an ibook. You can't buy the part I need, you have to buy the whole package. I found that I could buy half of the entire thing (which contains the plug that I need) for $75. Radio Shack doesn't stock the plug. It's like a $1 thing that is wrong, but you can't find the thing!!! grrrr again. I got a good deal on ibook, and we use Mac for work, so it was more logical for me.

I have been holding the plug by hand for a month, then when I found out how much they wanted to replace it after holding wouldn't work, I decided to chop it apart and see if I could splice it...that worked for a day! I'm watching ebay as my business partner swears by it....we shall see.

-- Doreen (bisquit@here.com), February 01, 2002.

OK Doreen, I am not familiar with the iBook so can't offer anything useful, perhaps it would be easier and good therapy to fix the trailer instead! :)

-- john hill (john@cnd.co.nz), February 01, 2002.

Doreen, Try eBay. This is a link to the one listed that ends on the 4th: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1327434044 It's at $42 dollars right now, shipping is $10. I've got a bunch of wholesale links, so I'll see what else I can find on the net and post anything that looks good. HOpe it helps, Kristin

-- Kristin, in La. (sevenstonestile@earthlink.net), February 02, 2002.

Doreen, Do you need the full power supply, the adaptor, or the charge card, or what? I've got a bunch more possibles, but I'm not sure exactly which part you need. Let me know, Kristin

-- Kristin, in La. (sevenstonestile@earthlink.net), February 02, 2002.

Hey Kristin! Been wondering about you...nice to have you here! That is the one I'm looking at on ebay;). I'll email you with the particulars. Thanks so much!

-- Doreen (bisquit@here.com), February 02, 2002.

Doreen, try www.digikey.com - electronics supplier who will sell you quantity one of just about anything, and they carry a lot of stuff. Online and paper catalogs available.

-- Eric in TN (eric_m_stone@yahoo.com), February 06, 2002.