Rodney: I haven't seen the cable connected floppy on Thinkpads in a few years now. Have you seen it on recent series? The last ones I saw were Thinkpad 600 vintage, which is two or three years ago, now. On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, R Haynie wrote: > 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 at braille.uwo.ca [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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org
