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Question: Has anyone had experience running an external triple or quad speed CD-ROM off their TP755? IBM's latest offering is an external PCMCIA CD-ROM double-speed and multi-session Photo CD compatible drive with access time of 250 ms @ 300KB/sec. They are selling it with the PCMCIA CD-ROM interface card (Type II socket) for $415.00. I called IBM PC-Direct and the rep didn't even know that it existed and asked me to fax him the news release on it (thank you Joshua)! I haven't heard back from him as to availability but I do know that I can go down to the nearest computer wholesale outlet and buy an external double-speed CD-ROM for less than $200. But here comes the question, how much would a third party PCMCIA CD-ROM interface card cost and is it compatiable w/ the 755? I don't know if IBM's interface card that comes with theirs is SCSI or not, but I know either way that I will get faster throughput using PCMCIA as opposed to parallel or serial. So anyone out there running an external PCMCIA CD-ROM? Is it double-, triple-, or quad-speed? How do you like it and where can I get one? If I go SCSI, does Colorado trakker make a SCSI 250-500MB backup tape drive unit? Thanks in advance. ************************************ David N. Rocheleau Department of Mechanical Engineering 300 South Main Street University of South Carolina Columbia SC 29208 rocheleau-david@scarolina.edu 803|777-9395 (Office) 803|777-0106 (Fax) ************************************