In a message dated 1/1/2004 18.24.50 US Mountain Standard Time, 
plug-discuss@grueslayer.com writes:

Might want to see if you can find a second-hand or aftermarket adaptor.  I'd 
suspect that it would be reasonably cheap, given that power bricks tend to 
hold little value when divorced from their laptop.

I note some older laptops used to have the power brick built in.  I'm amazed 
nobody took it a step further and made the power brick work off of 12-240 
volts instead of

I did a quick search, and ebay has several aftermarket ones for my laptop at 
USD 18 or so.  I doubt you have the same laptop as me, so who knows.