RE: tlug: install to no-CD notebook

[Jonathan Byrne <jq@example.com>]

On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Matt Gushee wrote:

> some that use proprietary (Windows-only) drivers. If it were me, I'd
> probably buy a SCSI CD-ROM and a general-purpose PCMCIA SCSI
> adapter. The initial cost would be considerably higher, but then you'd
> have a SCSI adapter that could be used with various devices, and a
> CD-ROM that could be connected to any computer with a SCSI adapter.

Seconded.  The lowest-cost approach to doing this (at least if you are in
reasonable distance of Akihabara or Osaka's Nipponbashi) would be to scour
junk shops for an external CD-ROM enclosure (a nice Sun unit might be
8,000 to 10,000 yen, or a PC-oriented unit might be as low as 2,000 to
3,000 yen) and then buy a new SCSI CD-ROM drive and pop it in there.  I've
seen 32X models for around 11,000  yen in Akihabara.  In the worst case,
the drive and enclosure would then cost about 20,000 and may be under
15,000.  I don't know what PC card SCSI adapters cost, but that may be the
greater part.

Jonathan Byrne -- Engineering Division <jq@example.com>
Global Online Japan <http://www.gol.com/>
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