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On Tue, 3 Feb 1998 15:07:33 -0500 (EST), Tim Tyhurst wrote: >> Anyone have any opinions to share regarding Sigma Data replacement CD-ROM >> drives for Thinkpads? A friend got an 8x drive from CDW to replace the ailing >> 2x drive on his 755. While my 2x drive isn't ailing yet, this was a fairly >> inexpensive way for me to get a 8x speed boost, but I'm concerned about >> reliability. Under Win95, it's identified as a "Goldstar CD-ROM CRN-8080B". > >Sorry -- I have no experience with the Sigma Data units, but I just saw that >Surplus Direct (www.surplusdirect.com) is currently selling new 6x IDE TEAC >CD-46E CD-ROM drives which they claim are for internal use in ThinkPad >755/360/365 models. They're clearly a little confused about these model >numbers (certainly the 360 series never accomodated CD-ROMs), That would be correct. Also, wasn't it only certain models of the 755 that supported CD-ROMs? but the >price is pretty good: $22 + $8 shipping. > Are you serious!?!? That's pretty cheap. -- Paul =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Paul Khoury pkhoury@loop.com http://pkhoury.dyn.ml.org (if you can't get to the website, then I'm probably not online) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Sent from my ThinkPad 701CS running OS/2 Warp 4 Do you have a spare CPU? If so, donate it to a good cause. Check out http://www.ionet.com/~colin/rc5 today! The Operating System/2 Version is 4.00 Revision 9.029 There are 23 Processes with 76 Threads. This machine's uptime is 0d 0h 35m 8s 312ms. -- Paul =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Paul Khoury pkhoury@loop.com http://pkhoury.dyn.ml.org (if you can't get to the website, then I'm probably not online) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Sent from my ThinkPad 701CS running OS/2 Warp 4 Do you have a spare CPU? If so, donate it to a good cause. Check out http://www.ionet.com/~colin/rc5 today! !os2stats