Re: A20m vs. 600E - looking for input

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From: David Goldman (David_at_dgoldman.com)
Date: Fri Jul 14 2000 - 10:30:39 EDT


I agree 100% with Allan's comment, *IF* I had been able to configure
one of the devices externally.

If you read my message carefully, I stated that OS/2 required BOTH AT
THE SAME TIME. Unfortunately, the previous laptop was not a ThinkPad
and could not run either the floppy or CD externally. And as I said,
it wasn't possible if you had to switch back and forth, swapping the
two drives.

At 01:58 AM 7/14/2000 , Allan Ballard wrote:
>I certainly agree on the convenience of having
>all three perhipherals internal. But one can
>easily load OS/2 with floppy and a CD one of
>them being external.
>
>On Thu, 13 Jul 2000 09:44:11 -0700 (PDT), David Goldman wrote:
>
> >There are certain things I wanted to do (like install OS/2) that required
> >the CD and Floppy be available at the same time. You just couldn't do it
> >if you had to swap back and forth.


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