I agree:
The dongle is known not to work on all systems.  The external floppy would
be your best option.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lynn Zelvin" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 4:18 PM
Subject: jaws on new laptops


> Just a side note, I see that Freedom Scientific is dealing with the issue
> of the lack of 3.5 floppy drives by selling a dongle which you need to use
> to get jaws out of demo mode. I would suggest that instead of spending the
> money on the dongle one buy an external 3.5 inch drive for just a little
> more money and with more possible uses.
>
> Lynn
>
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