[Coco] BASIC format questions

[Gregory Law]

Perhaps he should bring it to my house because every AC outlet here is 
already polarized for Australia power. It's a real pain in the keester 
dealing with upside down outlets, but either this was the building code 
in effect at the time the house was built or the contractor was an 
idiot. Given the many issues we've run into over the years (like five 
nail holding the kitchen cabinets to the wall that eventually came 
undone a couple years ago), I'm leaning towards the contractor was an 
idiot.

On 3/14/2017 5:14:12 PM, "Arthur Flexser" <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:

>On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 2:32 PM, John W. Linville 
><linville at tuxdriver.com>
>wrote:
>
>>
>>  FWIW, I have British and French CoCo's, and even Welsh and Spanish
>>  Dragons. I have a Brasilian CP-400 as well. But I don't have any way
>>  to generate upside-down polarity power for Australian machines... ;-)
>>
>>
>I'm surprised the answer hasn't already occurred to you....
>
>You just go to the power outlet the Australian CoCo is to be plugged 
>into,
>unscrew the face plate and the screws that hold the sockets in place, 
>then
>turn the sockets upside down and reassemble the thing.  The hole for 
>the
>ground connection on each socket will now be at the top instead of the
>bottom, so you know the polarity is now changed to upside down.
>
>Don't be embarrassed, the list is always ready to provide help for 
>those in
>need due to lack of technical training.
>
>Art
>
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