On 5 Mar 99, at 7:09, Jose Gonzales wrote:

> Does anyone knows something about "BACK PACK" backup unit?, such as
> specifications, manufacturer, major characteristics, capacity, how
> well it works, so on

  I believe it's a brand name for external drives that plug into a
parallel port.  That's likely to make it slow -- okay for backup, but
doubtful for program execution -- and susceptible to poor cables or
misconfigured parallel ports, but easy to move from machine to machine.

  An AltaVista search on "+backpack +drive" finds hits for external
floppy drives, hard drives, CD-ROM drives and tape drives, all under
the "BackPack" brand name.


David G

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