----- Original Message ----- From: "Howard Winter" Subject: Re: [EE:] Aircraft laptop Power connections > That's an American thing - here in Britain they are still called Laptops. If you asked for a notebook here, > you'd get a pad of paper! :-) Paper? Isn't that what the Egyptians used to use? Seems like they took berry juice and marked on it with a pointy feather or something like that. Is your island so isolated they still do that? --McD -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics