From: Jeffrey M. Arnold (jmarnold_at_znet.com)
Date: Fri Jun 05 1998 - 11:41:08 EDT
Randal Whittle writes:
> Anyone want to hazard a guess about what I just signed for today?
>
> Yep. The Airborne delivery guy mentioned, "Seems like Christmas is every
> few days with you!"
About the same time Randall sent this another Airborne Express driver
appeared on my doorstep with my PII-266 TP 600. (Sorry, Randall, you
should have held out for the 266. When I called to change my order to
the 233, they told me it had already shipped, and indeed, an hour
later my doorbell rang).
I have to say I agree with Randall's reviews, so I won't bore the list
with more glowing reports. For me, the TP600 is an upgrade from my
beloved 701C, which ran Linux (and later NT on a separate disk) for
the past 3 years. My first step was therefore to properly dispose of
Win95, repartition the disk, and bring up NT (I haven't had time to do
Linux yet, but I've set aside a 1GB partition for it). NT was
relatively painless with the driver package from the IBM web page. It
turns out there was one required file not included in the zip package
("utility disk for DOS personalization", or some such name), but that
was easily found.
One complaint: I was visiting a client yesterday and needed to move
some files from his machine to mine. He had an HP CD-R drive, so we
tried to move the files via CD, but the TP600 drive was unable to read
the CDs. We tried three different types of media (gold, green, and
blue recording surfaces), none were readable by my 600, but all were
readable on a colleague's Compaq laptop, as well as other desk top
machines. We had to resort to "warm swapping" my floppy drive (see
Randall's review, part II) and multiple floppies.
-jeff
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