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At 02:24 PM 9/25/96 -0700, you wrote: >Anyone have any experience with these parallel port drives on >Thinkpads (I have a 755CE)? All I need is someting to load >software on to the hard disk and perhaps serve as a read-only >drive for data - I don't have to boot an operating system from >it or anything else out of the ordinary. Just curious how well >made they are or if there're any problems with them? > >Thanks, > >Billy Y.. > <<<SHAMELESS CONSUMER TESTIMONIAL TO FOLLOW!!>>> If there is a portable CD-ROM hall of fame, the MicroSolutions Backpack CD-ROM belongs in it. I have used it with ThinkPad 700, 720, 701C, 750C, 750Cs and the entire 755 series with OS/2 Warp, OS/2 Warp Server, Windows 3.x, 95, and NT3.51. The driver installation is simple, even for OS/2 and it is very stable. I would even go as far as to say that I consider it mission-critical--my company often loads ThinkPads for demonstration purposes--and it goes where we go. Is it durable, you ask? I have taken the thing in my carry-on luggage, I have packed it in my suitcase, I have even shipped it to three different cities in five days, (It has been to more cities this year than Pearl Jam) and it has never let me down. The 4X speed started making strange noises and MicroSolutions shipped a new one FedEx with no questions asked. The only negative--it is a parallel port device so don't plan on streaming AVIs from it. But for straight file transfer, OS or application loads it won't let you down. --wwd