My eldery father i-law has been living in majorca for some 20 years and has recently suffered several strokes. He now only has the use of one hand and really misses not being able to write letters any more. A friend here in the UK kindly gave him a very basic dedicated word processor (just displays a few lines of text and runs simple WP). A computer is too complicated for him to understand/use. The WP has an external"brick" for a psu (9V dc o/p I *think*).
Anyway this WP box-thing works fine here in the UK but when wifey took it too majorca the thing just scrolls junk text at switch-on. Brought it back here - works fine! I just wonder if the supply voltage in ES/majorca is not correct for such WP things? Too much voltage variation perhaps? Frequency different? Can the mains plugs there be inserted either way around (ie swaps live/neutral) and if so could this make a difference somehow? We could always look for a WP in ES to start with but just wondered what the trouble could be.