ideal laptop recommendations?

Kevin Oberman oberman at es.net
Thu May 8 10:07:53 PDT 2003


> From: "Brandon S. Allbery " KF8NH <allbery at ece.cmu.edu>
> Date: 08 May 2003 12:58:52 -0400
> 
> On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 12:53, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > > From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo at soco.agilent.com>
> > > * The A31 does not come with a floppy.  You can get an external floppy,
> > >   but it's an USB floppy.  This is not an issue for me (I can still boot
> > >   from CDROM), but it's an issue for some.
> > 
> > If you buy the port replicator, you can plug a standard floppy drive into
> > it. (That's how I connect my floppy to my T30.)
> 
> Does IBM no longer make the UltraBay2000 floppy?  We got those for our
> T30s; they appear as standard (non-USB) floppies, as far as I can tell.

I assume that they do, but I didn't buy one. I just plug in either the
floppy that came with my really old 560 or the one that came with my old
600E. Both work fine on my port replicator.

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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