Folks,

I'm being "forced" to downsize here by a demanding wife and, in addition
to a 65+ year collection of ham radio gear, I've got five or six old
computers that will also have to go.  Before tossing them I'd like to
look at what's on their hard drives and wonder if what someone told me is
true.  And that is - if you open the case on a working computer with a CD
drive, and unplug the cable from that drive, that the CD drive connector
will fit the hard drives in which I'm interested.  When I plug it in the
computer will "recognize" the old hard drive as a "new" device and then I
will be able to access it, read the contents, copy off what I need to a
floppy, a flash drive, or the regular HD on my computer.

This sounds just too good to be true, so I'm asking you experts - is it
really this easy?  Or have I misunderstood what I thought I'd heard?

Lewis Emerson 

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