Trinket, the polydactyl candle-lovin’ kitty chewed up my laptop cord, severing the power cable. I guess you can scratch off one of her 9 lives.


This IBM cord is riddled with teeth marks and has exposed wiring.

I took the old chewed cable, which is for an IBM T61, and cut off the connector that fits into the laptop and spliced it onto an old Dell laptop cord that I had lying around left over from an old laptop. Both had a 20 volt output, so it should work.


My new Frankenstein cord.

The electrical tape is gawdawful ugly, but it delivers juice to my IBM laptop, and its charging back up to full now at a pretty good rate. The cat better leave this one alone because I’m all out of spare laptop power cords.

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