The EZCD is the ultimate portable CD-ROM drive, combining ease of use with portability and amazing performance at unbeatable prices. Simply connect a parallel cable to any PC... more
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Advantages: Portable Disadvantages: Connection to computer is via parallel cable so slow data transfer
So a portable CD-ROM. Why you may ask. Well I will tell you this device has saved my bacon many times. Ever had a computer or laptop with No internal CD-ROM drive and it will not boot into Windows? What do you do! Well I just hooked up the EZCD drive to the computer loaded the computer into dos and booted from the drives floppy and the CD-ROM was running. Then windows could be installed no bother! Anyway, it connects to the computer via parallel ... ...But there are versions of this product that you can get that have USB instead. It works well with DOS, 95, 98, ME, XP. I'm not sure about 2000 it would never except the drivers and 2000 always crashed when I tried installing it. So i wouldn't recommend buying it for 2000 unless its a more newer product and has a drivers disk for 2000.
You can place any CD-ROM drive in the device as the CD-ROm that comes with it is removable so maybe you could remove ...
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The EZCD is the ultimate portable CD-ROM drive, combining ease of use with portability and amazing performance at unbeatable prices. Simply connect a parallel cable to any PC parallel printer port, load the software and the system is ready for use. There is no need for an external mains adaptor as the unit has a built in universal auto-switching power supply unit and cooling fan, making it the most versatile portable CD-ROM drive around. The unit also has a pass through printer port connection for concurrent printing purposes. The EZCD is ideal for sharing amongst several PCs thus making the unit cost per PC amazingly low.
Software / system requirements
Software Included: Drivers & Utilities
OS Required: Microsoft Windows 95, IBM OS/2, Microsoft Windows 3.1, Microsoft Windows NT
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