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12-10-2000, 11:04 PM
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I'm looking for a CD writer with USB for my laptop.Which CD writer or RW do you recommend?
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12-10-2000, 11:50 PM
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http://www.micro-solutions.com/produ...t-028-usb.html
Pick the parallel/USB or parallel/PC Card model. These are *solid* drives and the general choice of professionals for portability in the field. |
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12-11-2000, 11:27 AM
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Thanks glc..What do you mean by "solid" drives? Is this a new computer term?
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12-11-2000, 12:40 PM
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solid = rugged, reliable, easy to configure, well supported.
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12-11-2000, 10:38 PM
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Hi glc: Thanks for the tip. I went to your MicroSolutions site and printed the info up. Are you using a "backpack CD-rewriter"? If so, does it work faithfully? Good tech support? With luck, when equip works we won't need good tech support..
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12-11-2000, 11:14 PM
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I've know a few people to use those drives and they never seemed to have any complaints about them.
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12-12-2000, 03:43 AM
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Yes, we use a backpack 4x4x20 parallel/PC Card model daily in our business. We have also had other backpack products (regular parallel cd readers, tape drives) and have had excellent luck. The backpack cd drives are just IDE drives in a case with the appropriate adapters and cables - so if the drive itself ever dies, you can just put any IDE drive in. Replacement power supplies are available from CDW. The backpack burner comes with a DOS driver, a Windows driver, and Adaptec software.
I have an old backpack case here - it used to have a 4x Gold Star reader in it which died - all I need is a power supply (we lost ours) and I'm going to put my old Ricoh 2x burner in it so we have another portable burner. We have only called for support once - and the support we received was good. Everything else we have needed we have found on the website. |
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