Hello,

Does anyone know the latest manufactured Thinkpads equipped with both
floppy drives and cdroms at the same time? I have a 390E, 333 mhz, and
like the feature. Anyone know the latest before they stopped?

Thanks,

Bill

Many Thinkpads have external floppy drives available that plug in
(either to a "select bay" or with a cable). This gives you the
functionality that you are seeking, although it means carrying around an
extra item. On some later models, the same effect can be acheived with
an external USB floppy drive. Or do you truly require both an internal
floppy drive and an internal CD-ROM drive? That's called a "3-spindle
machine". Not sure what the last such machine was that IBM made, but
Toshiba was making some as late at 2003 (the 1415, a [Pentium 4]Celeron
was one of the last such Toshiba machines).


Bill wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Does anyone know the latest manufactured Thinkpads equipped with both
> floppy drives and cdroms at the same time? I have a 390E, 333 mhz, and
> like the feature. Anyone know the latest before they stopped?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill

Thanks Barry for the reply. I have a couple of Toshibas which I am
most familiar with, but had this one Thinkpad laptop. I thought it
pretty cool that both drives were internal simultaneously. I'm not
really forced to have them both inside, but was curious what Thinkpads
were last produced like this, as I thought it unique.

Bill


On Thu, 07 Dec 2006 22:03:09 -0500, Barry Watzman
<WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> wrote:

>Many Thinkpads have external floppy drives available that plug in
>(either to a "select bay" or with a cable). This gives you the
>functionality that you are seeking, although it means carrying around an
>extra item. On some later models, the same effect can be acheived with
>an external USB floppy drive. Or do you truly require both an internal
>floppy drive and an internal CD-ROM drive? That's called a "3-spindle
>machine". Not sure what the last such machine was that IBM made, but
>Toshiba was making some as late at 2003 (the 1415, a [Pentium 4]Celeron
>was one of the last such Toshiba machines).
>
>
>Bill wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Does anyone know the latest manufactured Thinkpads equipped with both
>> floppy drives and cdroms at the same time? I have a 390E, 333 mhz, and
>> like the feature. Anyone know the latest before they stopped?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bill

Bill <vfo22@netzero.net> wrote:

> ...3-spindle thinkpads...?

famous spacestation a31p has both floppy & optical drives

Bill wrote:
> Does anyone know the latest manufactured Thinkpads equipped with both
> floppy drives and cdroms at the same time? I have a 390E, 333 mhz, and
> like the feature. Anyone know the latest before they stopped?
>
> Bill

*** I can't answer that, but my HP Pavilion has floppy and CD-ROM
drives, plus serial, parallel, USB, network, and keyboard ports. It suits
my computing style to a T and allows use of older, but perfectly usable
hardware.

In particular, I love my serial-port, full-size, weighted, desktop
trackball!

Richard Bonner
http://www.chebucto.ca/~ak621/DOS/

How do I get the spacestation unit, shipping, etc???


On 8 Dec 2006 07:55:35 GMT, Tom Lightbody <tpl@homer.cwru.edu> wrote:

>Bill <vfo22@netzero.net> wrote:
>
>> ...3-spindle thinkpads...?
>
>famous spacestation a31p has both floppy & optical drives
>

My R40 has a tray containing DVD, which can be replaced by Floppy
Tray, I think it cost about $40 several years ago, you can also put
in another hard drive, etc. I use second identical hard drive to
clone the C: drive for backup.



On Fri, 08 Dec 2006 02:41:00 GMT, vfo22@netzero.net (Bill) wrote:

>Hello,
>
>Does anyone know the latest manufactured Thinkpads equipped with both
>floppy drives and cdroms at the same time? I have a 390E, 333 mhz, and
>like the feature. Anyone know the latest before they stopped?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Bill