> 1) CD-ROM drives that attached to and ran off the parallel port.
This could be a problem, since each laptop manufacturer have different
external CD-ROM/Floppy drive, so, for example, IBM external CD-ROM will not
work with HP laptop.
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16 BIT wrote:
No CD-ROM?
I don't know if the product(s) I'm about to describe are still marketed.
Having qualified this much, I'd like to say that a few years ago there were:
1) CD-ROM drives that attached to and ran off the parallel port.
2) Kits to allow a person to use a standard IDE CD-ROM driv