Cheryl, Most likely you have two options for hooking up the floppy drive. Option 1: Remove the CD rom drive and place the floppy drive in its place. Option 2: Use the external cable to connect the floppy drive to the laptop. This way will allow you to have both the CD Rom and the Floppy working at the same time. I hope this helps. Rodney -----Original Message----- From: speakup-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Cheryl Homiak Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 12:32 PM To: speakup Subject: Re: help with orientation to thinkpad t23 Well, so much for some of my wild guesses! Now that I accidentally turned the thinkpad on, I found the cdrom. It is on the right hand side and when you push a button it slides out to put the cd on. So I still don't know what the opening on the left side is. It seems to be not long enough for a diskette/floppy. However, I do appear to be right about the other piece with an opening that came separate; that does fit a floppy. Cheryl _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup