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On Sun, 21 Sep 1997 17:14:47 GMT, epbrown wrote: >On Sun, 21 Sep 97 07:55:54 , you wrote: >>On Sun, 21 Sep 1997 09:10:41 -0500, Mik Tip wrote: >>>Anyone know when IBM plans to introduce the internal "zip" >>>drive for the ThinkPad? >>> >>>I've seen several posts already on other areas of the net, but no >>>'definite' answers. >>> >>>Anyone have the "Shark" system? >>> >>>I've contemplated just running an external 3.5 gig hard drive, via parallel >>>port. Anyone doing so already? >> >>And for anyone who is doing that, or running other parallel port >>devices, are they really slow? I would only expect 8-bit speed, as >>the parallel port is only 8 bit anyways. >> >>Also, does anyone know if these devices are compatible with higher >>end OSes such as OS/2 and various unixes? > Can't help with the Unix and OS/2 questions, but I've done almost >all of these. I'm currently running the original 85MB drive from an >IBM 500 externally using a parallel port connector. The transfer rate >is pretty slow, but I've never clocked it. I can tell its slow only in >comparison to my internal drive and my pc card hard drive. > My PCMCIA drive is a Maxtor MobileMax 131MB drive double spaced to >250MB. Isn't compression a hassle, and also slows down the performance? Also, does anyone here (besides myself) use an ATA Flash RAM card for use as extra storage? Paul