Hello all, Are you still mourning the loss of your traveler disk drive since you cannot use it on your M-power or are you still using that drive on an older BN product? This has been covered before but there truly is a much better option if you need to access floppy disks for any reason. I'm not kidding, this is a much better option and the external USB floppy disk drive I recently purchased works much better than the old Blazie disk drive and it works much better than the traveler disk drive. There is no comparison! No batteries are needed since the drive operates from the M-power's USB port. One can insert or remove disks from the drive even though it isn't plugged into the USB port. It doesn't need to be plugged into a 110 volt outlet either. It is truly the kind of floppy drive we have needed for our notetakers for some time.
I received a floppy disk in the mail the other day. I had to fire up my old windows 98 PC in order to access the files on that disk. My new laptop doesn't have a floppy drive. I copied the files from the floppy disk to the hard drive on my old PC. I then went onto my network and copied the files to my M-power. That was all fine and good but I thought there should be a better way especially if I'm dealing with a number of floppy disks. I'm not able to get to Best Buy easily so did a Google search on a vendor which sold a USB external floppy disk drive. I came onto www.floppydisk.com. That is floppy disk dot com. The drive I purchased was $19.95 plus six dollars shipping. I received it in three to four days. I was able to read a file with this floppy drive even though my M-power battery was at ten percent. The drive works quickly as well. It shows up as a floppy drive in the BN and the A drive in my laptop. Floppy disk dot com was saying they are overstocked on this item. They claim to check out each drive before shipping it to the customer. One has a sixty day period to return the product if they aren't satisfied with what was purchased. The drive is about a third of the size of the traveler disk drive. It is smaller than the Blazie disk drives and no battery required. Too bad floppy disks are being replaced with newer and better options since this drive works so well. As I say, if you are in need of a USB external floppy disk drive, this is certainly a good option. Jim Aldrich ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
