Re: [Freedos-user] Laptop resurrection

2004-10-08 Thread Kristaps Kaupe
> 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. Kristaps, http://kristaps.netparks.lv http://slashdot.org/

Re: [Freedos-user] Laptop resurrection

2004-10-08 Thread Tom Lee Mullins
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