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From: awc@bu-cs.UUCP (Alex Cannon)
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Subject: IBM Portable 3 1/2" Drive Question
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Date: Mon, 19-May-86 15:55:52 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 19 15:55:52 1986
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Organization: Boston Univ Comp. Sci.
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Howdy,

I'm a Software Support programmer on our IBM 3090 (we run a great home-grown 
system called VPS), and I recently took over PC support. A user came in and
told me she wanted to get an IBM portable to do word processing on in 
Europe, and the salesman told her that no more portables were being 
manufactured with 4 1/4" drives, only with 3 1/2" floppies, and that she
couldn't get a service contract on one of the older models, even if she
found one. That sounds somewhat like bullshit to me; does anyone out there
know what the story is?

If she can get a word processing package on 3 1/2" disks, that'd probably
be ok, but we'd still have the problem of transferring her (large) text
files from our mainframe to a PC. The only reliable FTP we have is Kermit,
and we only have 4 1/4" drives here. She doesn't want to shell out over
a thousand bucks for a modem/com board either. Does anyone know about these
new drives? Could we get one for my XT, and copy the files after I download
them? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Alex Cannon
Boston University