Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 10:07:16 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: "Brandon S. Allbery " KF8NH <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ideal laptop recommendations? Message-ID: <20030508170716.EE2785D04@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Message from "Brandon S. Allbery " KF8NH <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> <1052413131.35041.2.camel@rushlight.kf8nh.apk.net>
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> From: "Brandon S. Allbery " KF8NH <allbery@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@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) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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