From: Bruce Markowitz (scosgt_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: Sat Jan 16 1999 - 09:58:42 EST
Personally, I would stay away from parallel port anything. PCMCIA SCSI is a
whole lot faster and more reliable.
-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Michaelides <andreas_at_xtra.co.nz>
To: Thinkpad <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Date: Saturday, January 16, 1999 8:39 AM
Subject: Re: want to use a CD-R burner with my TP760EL
>>thanks for the info.
>>
>>what's the exact model number of the ricoh unit?
>>
>>even simpler would be a parallel port burner,
>>since it wouldn't require the scsi card.
>>has anyone had any success with any of these?
>>
>>by the way, i'd like to share this CDR burner between
>>my TP760EL and a dell inspiron 7000.
>>
>
>
>I've been using a HP-7200 parallel port burner for the last 4 or so months
>on my 770. It writes at 2x and even writes CD-RW which really is a real
>bonus for testing out CD layouts, making a file or two change and reburning
>it without throwing away countless CD (which I used to do). It works real
>well, but I don't leave it plugged in all the time, because it can be a bit
>quirky with other software. It's also hot plugable/unplugable, so very easy
>to move between machines. Also quite cheap, comes with heaps of software,
>Norton av4, Corel stuff, directCD, CD creator deluxe etc. I'd recommend it
>if you are not doing heaps of CDs. I think the new model (already, arrgghh,
>computers!!) is 4x write, 8000 series.
>
>Email me if you want any info.
>
>Later,
>Andreas!!
>:-)
>
>
>
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