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Re: ThinkPad Zip Drive



At 10:47 PM 9/27/97 GMT, nick@bs28ha.demon.co.uk wrote:
>Last week I saw an advert for a 'ThinkPad Zip' in a large mail-order
>catalogue (Inmac, England). The description was as follows: "Now you
>can have an Iomega Zip drive installed in your IBM ThinkPad. The drive
>fits into the Ultrabay of the following models: 755CD, 755CDU, 760CD,
>760ED,760E, 760ELD, 760LD, 760EL". There was also a picture of this
>ThinkPad Zip drive, which looks similar in shape and size to the
>ThinkPad Cd-Rom drive.
>
>Upon calling Inmac about this, they could not give me any additional
>details whatsoever. They did not even know who made this drive. Nor
>did they have this product in stock yet, so could not get the details
>off the box for me.

	I've seen a 3rd party make a Zip drive that goes into a Compaq Laptop.  It
wouldn't surprise me if they or some other did the same for an
appropriately-equipped Thinkpad laptop.


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Director, Electronic Commerce Program
Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California