From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Mon Mar 20 2000 - 13:23:45 EST
since i'm answering this on monday, i may be late, BUT..
most of the IBM adapters work on most thinkpads..
round plug on round plug machines and 4 wire on 4 wire machines..
i have successfully used a 701 adapter on a 770 and vice versa.. all the
time..
so, for a 560, most any round plug adapter SHOULD work fine.. :-)
David Ross wrote:
> Thanks to all (especially Steve C and Stephen C) for the advice. (Also,
> thanks to all for not pointing out
> my misspelling of 'adapter'.)
>
> I cracked open my adapter (with great difficulty - these are clearly
> *never* meant to be opened!) and found that there's nothing wrong with
> the adapter itself, but there were 2 separate shorts in the DC-out line,
> one in the strain-relief module (which I gather also converts from twin
> lead to coax line) and one near the plug. So, all I have to do is
> replace the DC-out line and plug to get a working unit.
>
> Of course, once I'm done the thing will be nowhere near as robust or
> nice as it was (after all, I've decimated the strain-relief bit), and in
> any event I want a spare. Now I'm having trouble figuring out the right
> unit - the original (85G6737) seems to not exist any more, there are a
> whole lot of others (e.g.,
> 85G6689, 11J9992, ...) which might or might not work. When I go to
> IBM's web shop
> and follow the links to my specific machine I get to the page
> http://www5.pc.ibm.com/us/products.nsf/ModelLookup2/264010U?OpenDocument
> &65,65
> which suggests the 02K6546, then in a footnote says that it *won't* in
> fact work on my machine. Eh?
> Then why recommend it?
>
> Help?
>
> - David R. (ross_at_math.hawaii.edu)
-- Happy trails...** Bill Morrow ** :-) WEB page http://thinkpads.com e-mail: bill_at_thinkpads.com, penzance_at_gate.net
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