[CQ-Contest] Laptop and Contesting Software

[Charles Gallo]

On 10/25/2007 Zack Widup wrote:

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> By the way, we bought an Inspiron at work a few years ago.  I forget the
> model but it had a cartridge slot for either a CD drive or floppy drive.
> You couldn't use both at once.  It made for a real pain in the tuchis to
> try to install an operating system on it on an un-partitioned, 
> unformatted hard drive.

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They are called "drive bays" - one huge advantage of more modern machines and OSes - ones that can boot off of CD/DVD - you don't need floppies to install the OS - put the DVD in the drive, and tell it to boot from the drive


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