>From: Peter Garcia <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: [PCBUILD] opinions on 2.2GB ORB external parallel port drive
>Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 12:04:19 -0500
>
>does anyone have an experience with /opinion of:
>
>The ORB drive has a capacity of 2.2 GB, more than any other product in
>                  its category. It's parallel interface (USB and SCSI
>versions are also
>                  available) make it incredibly easy to connect to any PC,
>and it's small
>                  size makes it totally portable.

==========My son just bought one for his laptop. It is 2.2 GB removable hard
drive. It is $199.99 and the disks are $29.99 each.

He already had a 100 MB Zip, which is actually a huge floppy.

Here is where the water gets a little muddy.

If you have a both Zip and Orb parallel port drives, they can be
piggybacked, but you need to got to the respective web sites and d/l new
drivers, since the ones that come with the units won't co-operate.

(Actually, the drivers for PP devices of this class are SCSI emulators, but
the drives pass printer output through as parallel port information.)
==========Korny

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