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From: Tim Hotze <tim_at_thereviewguide.com>
Date: Thu Dec 24 07:38:40 1998

> Not to be a presumptuously snobbish American or anything but in Guyana?

Yeah... it's kind of strange. It looks like it used to be a pretty nice
place, say around 1950 or so, when it was British owned. Beautiful
streets lined with canals, very spacious. It was like a town, very
well-laid out. Beautiful wooden buildings, and of course, a full
British infrastructure. Now... as you probably can guess, under a
communist leader who didn't allow flour to be imported for 17 years,
it's started to crumble. And you know what happens to beautiful
wooden buildings when you're in a country with hundreds of trillions
of termintes...

To be back on topic (well, sort of) there's no real computers here.
Just a whole bunch of PC's... and all the ones paritally classic,
(mostly old PC's, usually 16-bit era), are still being used and
viciously guarded.

The power here's also amazingly strange: 110v (which is good,
after spending 4 years in a 220v country with all 110v equipment),
but 50hz. Sure, I've heard of 110v 60hz, and 220v 50hz... but not a
mixture.

I can get my Apple IIc to boot fine with local power (or when we're
running off of 110v 60hz generator power), but my II+ isn't as lucky.
 Any reason why this wouldn't work?

Tim
Received on Thu Dec 24 1998 - 07:38:40 GMT