User`s guide

Connecting a
CD·ROM drive
I enjoyed Tom Boyles' article
in the July /
August Palmtop
Paper (page 15) on connect-
ing a
Zip drive and an IDE
hard drive to the HP. I am a
real fan of
the Transdigital
parallel port PCMCIA card,
and have been running a
Zip drive from my HP since
the TransPC
card came out
last year.
I
have recently been suc-
cessful
with another device
which should be added to
the list of new toys Tom
hinted at in his article. The
Letters
Addoni cs Pocket Parallel
Port C D-ROM drive,
which w eigh s 15 oz. and
is the size of two stacked
CD jewel cases, works
with the TransPC card on
theHP .
I
now can carry m y
Oxford English Dictionary
(version 1.0 for DOS), th e
complete
Gutenberg library
CD-ROM, and many other
databases of history and lit-
erature that run with
DiscPassage (the old Bureau
of Electronic Publishing
DOS CDs) and Folio for
DOS.
Setup only requires ena-
bling the TransPC port, then
manually loading the
Addonics drivers by run-
ning pcd.bat, which calls
drivload . com to load
pcd.sys (all on the software
floppy that comes with the
drive).
It also loads mscd ex.exe,
which I got from a DOS-5
laptop with a CD-ROM
drive (it should be supplied,
Addonics, if you're listen-
ing).
The only glitch is that I
find that I have to load
and
then drop out of Slstem
Manager after loading the
TransPC drivers (and before
running pcd.bat) to keep the
machine from hanging.
The Addonics Pocket
Parallel Port CD-ROM is a
lOX drive (searches are
indeed fast, but the HP can't
keep
up with this!) that run s
about $300. (It doubles as a
music
CD player on AC, or
with four AA batteries.)
Unfortunately, the com-
puter-interfaced CD-ROM
drive only works with AC
(the
adapter is a couple of
ounces; very small). It
would be nice to find a
power pack to make thi s
totally portable.
Jeffrey F. Friedman
jeff®friedman. com
[The Parallel PocketCD is
available from
Addonics
Technologies, 48434 Milmont
Drive, Fremont,
CA 94538
USA; Phone: [phone];
Fax: [phone]; E-mail:
[e-mail]; Internet:
http://www.addonics.com .
THE EDITORS.]
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