>Tiger Direct sells gadgets to let you mount IDE drives and CD ROMs in external
>cases.  They connect to the parallel port.  I'm sure there's a performance
hit,

Attached to a parallel port a IDE hard drive would take an enormous
performance hit !
The only use for this would be to temporarily transfer files....at a very
slow rate.

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>but it would look professional.  For the drive, the part number is
V46-1006 for
>the drive or V46-1012.  $74.95 each.

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