In a message dated 09-04-15, Mike Luther said to Holger Granholm:   
      
   Good morning Mike,   
      
    HG> That of course is possible but lightning between clouds is common here.   
      
   ML> Not mentioned in my comments here and there that 29 times I've been   
   ML> personally involved in close lightning strikes is a bit more than   
   ML> posted above!  Of my so called out 29 such events, six times my   
   ML> airplane was hit directly!   
      
   Very interesting. I'm no flyer and the passenger planes I've traveled in   
   avoid thunderstorms if possible.   
      
    HG> IBM laptops are nowadays made and sold under the name Lenovo.    
      
   RN> Chinese, isn't it?   
      
    HG> Correct but under quality control of IBM.   
      
   ML> Well depending on what you might know about the whole computer   
   ML> technology issue and all the world dis and dat.  Including the   
   ML> history of IBM and China and a lot more.   
      
   I don't know it in great detail.   
      
   ML> to be 'under the quality control of IBM', as the years and years   
   ML> have gone by and even more than the IBM desktop computer systems   
   ML> were also farmed out for 'manufacture' in this or that 'place'...   
      
   I have however been told (taught) that certain models of Lednovo lap-   
   tops are OS/2 compatible and other models not. The identification is to   
   be found in the type number. The two models I have are OS/2 compatible   
   according to a source.   
      
   ML> One wonders if anyone actually really knows at all if even IBM had   
   ML> any quality control of any of this?   
      
   Who knows.   
      
   Have a nice day,   
      
   Holger   
      
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