Was Can I take a Mac to Australia? Now France?

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From: Ted Goldstein
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1989 14:25

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In article <7303@microsoft.UUCP> stuartb@microsoft.UUCP (Stuart Burden) writes:
>In article <392@usage.csd.unsw.oz>
>rees@usage.csd.unsw.oz (Rees Griffiths) writes:
>>The voltage problem is a minor one.  A separate transformer
>>will do.  It may not be strictly legal, but there you go.
>
>The Mac has a switching Power Supply.  You do not need a transformer, Rees.
>

Well, I wasn't following this discussion, but my brother has decided to
up and move to France and has asked me to send him his Mac+ and find
out what he needs to run it. I was under the impression that only the
Mac SE and higher could run on 240V 50Hz with no modification. What is
needed to run the Mac+? Will a stepup transformer work? Does the frequency
difference matter? Can he buy a European power supply from Apple? And
now for the big one: what about his Lacie hard drive? 
   Any and all information about taking American Macs to Europe would
be greatly appreciated at this time. 

Ted Goldstein
Purdue University School of Technology
du4@mace.cc.purdue.edu

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From: du4@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Ted Goldstein)
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Subject: Was Can I take a Mac to Australia? Now France?
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Date: 11 Aug 89 14:25:21 GMT
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