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 Curious about the people moderating your messages? Visit our staff web site: http://nospin.com/pc/staff.html