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On Wed, 13 Aug 1997 09:22:20 -0400, richard wrote: > A great source of pricing on all computer equipment is >www.uvision.com. The Toshiba 2.1gb 12.5mm drive seems popular, and is >a lot cheaper than the IBM. > >You can buy a notebook drive to standard IDE drive cable for something >in the $10 to $25 range. You can also get a parallel port adaptor >which will let you connect the notebook drive to a parallel port. >Throughput will be slower, as the parallel port is slower than the IDE >bus. There are also notebook drive to PCMCIA adaptors. > >-----Original Message----- >From: Robert W. King <rwking@ipa.net> >To: Paul Khoury <pkhoury@earthlink.net> >Cc: ThinkPad List <thinkpad@cs.utk.edu> >Date: Wednesday, August 13, 1997 8:57 am >Subject: Sources for 2.1 gig HDs for ThinkPad 701CS > > > >Hi Paul (or anybody else who wants to chime in)! > >I've more or less decided to upgrade my 701CS to a 2.1 gig hard drive >presuming >I can find one for a price I can afford. The problem is identifying >vendors who >sell the things. I would also be looking for some means of making use >of the >present 540 meg drive. I've flipped through the portable computing and >laptop >magazines and found them remarkably free of ads for laptop replacement >drives. >Any suggestions? > Yeah, be careful about Poop Portable Enhancements, after all the spamming and kiss-ups they've done on this list. Make sure you get a decent warranty, and try to buy from a vendor and/or dealer whom you think will be around for awhile, in case the need for technical support arrives. IBM I'm sure will be around for a while, but they're way too expensive, but still good. I guess I don't really have much else to say, as the things I want to upgrade this summer are my RAM (to 40 megs), and maybe just an extra hard drive for Linux, >=360 megs is fine. My summer job will provide for upgrade costs, though. Paul