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Subject: Re: Laptops really are different, aren't they?
Name:
 ludicrous
Date: 4/3/2002 10:47:32 PM (GMT-7)
IP Address: 138.67.74.229
In Reply to: Re: Laptops really are different, aren't they? posted by
Ben
Message:
For laptop hard drives, you CAN use it on a desktop with an adapter that divides the IDE output from the power cables, and gives you standard PC connectors for both.
I have never heard of such a device for a laptop floppy but it couldn't hurt to check around. OTOH you can easily pick up a brand new 3.5" floppy for $10-15 these days.
Save that laptop floppy, though, someday you may find somebody with a dead one. For a half-hour's work and the replacement drive, you could pick up $30...unless the someone is a cute girl, of course, in which case you could try to pick up her 
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