[ltp] floppy from 560E

[James Knott]

Satish Balay wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, Charles E Taylor IV wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 23:57:00 -0500
>>Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@skylineaero.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I have an external floppy drive from when I had my 560E. I now have a
>>>770. Can I use it with my current laptop? It does plug into a port on
>>>the back, but I don't want to short something out when I turn on the
>>>laptop.
> 
> 
> If it plugs-in - then it should work :)
> 
> 
>>I can tell you this much, at least.  The 770, 570, 600, and 240 all can
>>use the same external floppy drive.
> 
> 
> Don't remember about the 560E I had, but the floppy drive from my 600E
> is useable with my T40 (via port replicator). I guess this must be a
> standard connector across all thinkpads.

Later ThinkPads use USB, and IIRC the floppy connector on my 760E, was 
different from the 770.