365X Can external CD be added

[hjcfz]

I would like to try add a external Cd/rom to this antique. Can anyone let em know if this is possible and or possible setup(cables,software,) that I will need. The unit is running Win95. Any help appreciated.

Hugh

[schen]

It's possible, but you'd have to find some antiques to do it. The easiest way would probably be to find a Ultrabay2000 external drive bay that still has the PCMCIA adapter card/cable and driver disks. Then you can put basically any device you want in the UB2K that you want and have your notebook recognize it. Of course there are a number of PC Card interfaced CD-ROM that you can find on ebay or Craig's list. There is also parallel port devices like the vernerable "Backpack" series that were quite common for a while. I used one of those with a wide variety of old ThinkPads "back-in-the-day", like the 701 and 560.

[leoblob]

... There is also parallel port devices like the vernerable "Backpack" series that were quite common for a while. I used one of those with a wide variety of old ThinkPads "back-in-the-day", like the 701 and 560.

I have one of these and it's great. Mine came with a bootable DOS floppy that loads drivers so you can see and use the drive from DOS. Makes it easy to install an operating system.

[schen]

I was King of the external drives for a while when I owned a 701 (among others) that had little in the way of built-in devices. At one point, I had:

* Altec Lansing CD-ROM with speakers built into the housing.
* Backpack Paralllel CD- ROM
* Panasonic PCMCIA SCSI CD-ROM
* IBM PCMCIA/IDE CD-ROM
* (Can't remember brand) of Slim PCMCIA/IDE CD-ROM
* Several SCSI external CD-ROMs

I'm sure there are others I've forgotten too.