ideal laptop recommendations?

Jesse D. Guardiani jesse at wingnet.net
Thu May 29 08:09:46 PDT 2003


Brandon S. Allbery  KF8NH wrote:

> 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?

I think they still do.

>  We got those for our
> T30s; they appear as standard (non-USB) floppies, as far as I can tell.

Yup. Has been a real life saver during my dual boot adventures these last
two weeks on my IBM A30p.

> 

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