From: Colgrove, George (George.Colgrove_at_state.vt.us)
Date: Wed Sep 11 2002 - 07:16:42 EDT
This is probably the most forgiving and easiest to install option. My
backpack is a 4x and has quite literally a plug and play means of using.
With your laptop running (in DOS), you plug in your backpack into the
parallel port then at the DOS prompt type cdinstall (or something like that)
and BOOM! you have a CD-ROM you can use without having to reboot or setup or
alter your config files.
Their Windows install program is constantly maintained, even for their older
single and double speeds! I like using the backpack to install software on
laptops and desktops w/o cdroms. When compared to my Panasonic PC-Card
option, it is by far the easiest to use and more versatile.
|-----Original Message-----
|From: Julian Thomas [mailto:jt_at_jt-mj.net]
|Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 9:12 PM
|To: THINKPAD_at_cs.utk.edu
|Subject: Re: [TP 750] PCMCIA CD-ROM drive recommendation?
|
|
|In <001701c25926$a2536980$650010ac_at_edward>, on 09/10/02
| at 08:03 PM, "Edward Mendelson"
|<edward.mendelson_at_verizon.net> typed:
|
|>Was there an IBM (or other) PCMCIA-based CD-ROM drive that
|works with the
|>TP 750 under DOS and perhaps Windows 95? If so, what was the
|part number,
|>and are there are any problems to beware of?
|
|What worked for me with the 755CE (subsequently sold, along with the CD
|drive) was a Backpack parallel port drive. Worked very well
|under W9x and
|OS2 for software install. I think it may have worked under DOS also.
|
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