plug-in

[Joel S. Berson]

At 9/4/2010 04:47 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>As I wrote initially, I was
>never sure about the origin of the goof-up and was not committed to the
>"lost in translation" explanation--it's just that it would have been one
>of the easiest to imagine.

Well, it seems still to have been a "lost in translation" moment, but
from computer-knowledgeable to computer-illiterate.  I think my
translation to "at the notebook's plug that connects to the AC
adapter" may still be correct.  And if indeed the notebook has a
socket and the AC adapter the plug, possibly written by someone who
doesn't know genders, electrical.

Joel

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