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Thanks for the advice... Any pointers to a PCMCIA SCSI card that has Windows and OS/2 drivers? Thanks, Arie Litman voice (408)441-1166 x4411 FAX x**4411 Litman@netcom.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Mon, 25 Apr 1994, Victor C. Kress wrote: > The TP docking station is $900 and their CD-ROM is $600. This is > outrageous. > > For about the same price, one could get a 486 box on an ethernet running > peer-to-peer networking with a PCMCIA ethernet card. There would be > little loss in speed, and you would also be able to expand available hard > disk space to the 1.4 Gigabyte realm for the price of the TP 340Meg drive. > With a modem in the 486 box and in the TP, one could even access files > remotely! The main drawback of this approach is that it would be less > portable than the docking station. > > Another alternative is a PCMCIA SCSI interface to an external CD-ROM for > something like a third of the price of the docking station CD-ROM combo. > > While on the subject of penny pinching, the FAQ I downloaded mentioned the > possibility of putting a third-party hard disk in the TP750. Does anybody > have more information on this? > > -Cheap SOB > > On Sat, 23 Apr 1994, Arie Litman wrote: > > > > > > > Hey all, I need information from users of the IBM docking station with > > the CDROM player. I need a CDROM on my TP750C. Is the Docking station the > > right solution? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Arie Litman > > voice (408)441-1166 x4411 > > FAX x**4411 Litman@netcom.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > >