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Come in number 02K6549, the heat is on! as IBM recalls power bricks

by Guy Kewney | posted on 03 September 2004

They're pretty old bricks. They have the part number 02K6549 and they were sold for a range of IBM ThinkPad notebooks. If you have one, it's dangerous - it can over-heat and cause a fire.

Summon Brickman, Commissioner!.

Full details from the horse's mouth at the Consumer Product Safety Commission. And it's worth getting the real story, because the tale seems to have grown in the telling ...

According to the original press statement by CPSC, it involved "About 225,000" units. By the time Reuters got the story, it was "IBM Recalls 553,000 Laptop Power Units Worldwide" - and, even more intriguingly, IBM itself hasn't seen fit to mention this on its own web site, yet.

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