Re: Upgrading 701 to Win95

[Christian Carey <ccarey@CapAccess.org>]

On Friday, 14th February 1997, Robert Munzenrider wrote:

> I'm a little confused by the little port one uses to connect either the
> external floppy or a parallel printer. I'm going to need that port to
> connect a parallel- port-type Backpack-Brand External CD drive. I will
> have to use that cd/port to install Win95 from its Win95 Upgrade CD.
> _BUT_, I need to access the A-drive through the same port at some point
> during the installation process to make my Win95 StartUp disk.   ????

Did you inherit the port replicator (sorry, I've forgotten the IBM-speak 
for it) with your 701? If so, you can use the parallel port on it for 
your CDROM and the one on the left side of the box for the diskette drive.
-- 
Christian Carey (ccarey@CapAccess.ORG)