Hi all,
In this and the next message two replies I got on NEOORN. The shopkeeper
here told me of two climbers who went up to the top of Cotopaxi (about
18000 feet) and their iPods never worked again after they came down.
Best regards, Paul
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>Hi Paul:
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>I have an older model iPod that routinely ceases to work at 3,000m+; on
>returning to lower elevation, it will work again, although it has to be
>"reset" (which uses much battery strength but is not like reformatting). =
I
>suspect elevation, rather than temperature. I have a newer iPod that does
>fine. Rose Ann has two iPods, older and newer, that do fine. Rose Ann ha=
s
>a new laptop, the owner's manual of which says to be careful above 10,000'=
.
>Implication is that (some?) hard drives don't do well at higher elevations=
.
>And yet Barry and Manu Expeditions seem to use computers just fine in Cusc=
o;
>perhaps they adjust the computer's carburetor! I don't know what to tell
>you, but there is an issue out there.
>
>Richard
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>Richard Webster
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