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From: bruce@dolqci.UUCP (Bruce Limber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: HARDWARE ADVICE
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Date: Fri, 13-Nov-87 11:03:36 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 13 11:03:36 1987
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Summary: How to fit disk AND backup with 1 slot

Some dumb questions for you folks on the net.  :-)

I have a Compaq portable to which I plan to add a hard disk.
(It already has upgraded ROM & power supply, 1.25M of RAM,
serial/parallel ports, and two floppies.)

I've been planning on a Plus HardCard 40.

The problem is this:  I have only one open slot, intended for
the hard disk.  If I put it there, however, I apparently have
no way to do backups except floppies. :-(

Might there be a way to replace my B drive with a hard disk
or backup system that won't require _two_ slots:  one for
the disk, and one for the backup?

A recent discovery in a mailed advertisement:  an Irwin
half-height tape backup to replace the B drive:  it supposedly
plugs into the existing floppy controller and doesn't need
another slot.  Will this work on the Compaq?

Or should I forget the whole thing and get a Bernoulli box?
(Can you boot from a Bernoulli box???)

Any advice would be most welcome.

Thanks in advance!

-- 
Bruce Limber (NEW ADDRESS:  uunet!vrdxhq!dolqci!bruce)    (202) 535-0640

If we are not careful, we are liable to wind up where we are headed.
                                           (Chinese proverb)