Micro Solutions Backpack Bantam 4x4x20 Parallel/PC Card CD-RW Drive

Product Description

Pull this mini spinner out of your bag and you're only seconds away from a new CD-rewriter for any Pentium PC. Just plug it into your parallel port or PC Card slot. Only backpack is hot pluggable on the parallel port, so there's never a need to restart your PC!At only 20 ounces this player is incredibly portable. Plug and play makes it fast to connect. Pack it with your notebook, or carry it between home and work. Only backpack has a smart pass-through port so you never lose your printer when connected to the parallel port. The backpack Bantam CD-rewriter is the only parallel port CD-rewriter that creates a full 650MB CD in just 20 minutes with the added versatility of a PC Card connection. Find all the software you need to create your own CDs right in the box.

Customer Reviews:

Works, high quality drivers, good compatibility.......2006-06-13

I have owned this product for many years and use it a lot. It's one of the best computing investments I've ever made. They've been selling this gizmo for years, it's unusual for a company to support something that long these days. It works fine for me on a variety of computers. The drivers install easily and it works. I have run it with Win95, Win98, Win98SE, Windows 2000, WinNT 4.0, and WinXP and it worked on all of them. You can tell that the Micro Solutions people are paying attention to engineering their driver correctly because all of the Backpack products use the same driver. That means the Micro Solutions people are not cloning their code, they are using the same code all the time and that cuts down on bugs and makes it possible to get the bugs out. They release updated drivers regularly. I've never had this device cause any of my systems to crash.

You can also use some of the associated drives with the printer port, which is great for portability, and they also have a PC card (for use with the Notebook computer) and an inexpensive USB cable. All work for me, USB, PC Card, and printer port.

It's useful to get a spare power adapter so that you can leave one plugged in both at home and the office so you don't have to get on your knees everytime you want to transport the drive.

Micro Solutions also makes available free of charge their own CD recording software, called SpeedyCD. That, too, works fine for me.

A fine company.

This company was founded by Mark Cuban, billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks NBA team. Search the web for him and Kwame Jackson for interesting info.

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