Re: Docking station

[Arie Litman <litman@netcom.com>]

  Thanks for the advice... Any pointers to a PCMCIA SCSI card that has 
Windows and OS/2 drivers?


Thanks,


Arie Litman
voice (408)441-1166 x4411
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On Mon, 25 Apr 1994, Victor C. Kress wrote:

> The TP docking station is $900 and their CD-ROM is $600.  This is
> outrageous.  
> 
> For about the same price, one could get a 486 box on an ethernet running
> peer-to-peer networking with a PCMCIA ethernet card.  There would be
> little loss in speed, and you would also be able to expand available hard
> disk space to the 1.4 Gigabyte realm for the price of the TP 340Meg drive. 
> With a modem in the 486 box and in the TP, one could even access files
> remotely!  The main drawback of this approach is that it would be less
> portable than the docking station. 
> 
> Another alternative is a PCMCIA SCSI interface to an external CD-ROM for
> something like a third of the price of the docking station CD-ROM combo.
> 
> While on the subject of penny pinching, the FAQ I downloaded mentioned the
> possibility of putting a third-party hard disk in the TP750.  Does anybody
> have more information on this?
> 
> -Cheap SOB
> 
> On Sat, 23 Apr 1994, Arie Litman wrote:
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> >    Hey all, I need information from users of the IBM docking station with 
> > the CDROM player. I need a CDROM on my TP750C. Is the Docking station the 
> > right solution?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance,
> > 
> > Arie Litman
> > voice (408)441-1166 x4411
> > FAX                 x**4411                               Litman@netcom.com
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