From: Barry Marks (barry_at_fbtc.net)
Date: Sat Jan 16 1999 - 21:00:40 EST
I use a Ricoh CD-RW MP6200A on the parallel port of my Thinkpads and
desktop. It works just fine and is easy to move from one to another.
I also have a Compaq 486/75 that is DOS only and so far I haven't been able
to locate software for that. Oh well.
Barry
-----Original Message-----
From: George S. Kong <george_at_nc.com>
To: scosgt_at_worldnet.att.net <scosgt_at_worldnet.att.net>
Cc: thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Date: Saturday, January 16, 1999 2:42 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.
>
>George
>
>Bruce Markowitz wrote:
>>
>> I use a 760ED as my CD burner. Ricoh external SCSI CD-RW hooked into the
>> SCSI port on a Dock 2 (you can get the Dock 2 REAL cheap now). I tried
>> this on a 755CE DX-100, and it worked!
>> I use a Toshiba SCSI 32X CD-ROM in the Dock as a source CD. The
>> ThinkPad 20X works well for all except audio CD extraction, the 4X is
>> not really suitable for this. But, you can always use the burner to copy
>> by sending to the Hard Drive first, then back to the burner. So you
>> don't always need a source CD drive, although it is faster.
>>
>> George S. Kong wrote:
>> >
>> > i'm sure this has been discussed here before, but i wasn't
>> > interested until now :-)
>> >
>> > i have TP760EL runnning (i think) original Win 95 (not OSR2).
>> > i'd like to burn CDs, for backup and data exchange.
>> > has anyone gone down this path, and found a good, painless,
>> > inexpensive solution?
>> >
>> > thanks.
>> >
>> > ----------------------------------------------------------
>> > George S. Kong, Network Computer Inc, george at nc dot com
>
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