Dave's External Backpack CD-ROM drive with Sound

What is it?

Dave found this reconditioned drive in April 1999 for $146.15 including shipping at PCConnection. It works on DOS systems using a minimum of memory, and connecting to a standard parallel (printer) port. Backpack is the model name, a trademark of Micro Solutions.

Included in Dave's red LLBean shoulder bag are the following hardware:

• CD-ROM drive
• power cable
• parallel data cable

Also included are the following diskettes:

• Win95 Boot Disk w Utilities
• Win95 Boot Disk w Backpack/Sound
• Backpack CD-ROM with Sound version 2.12 Setup for DOS and Windows 3/95/98/NT (3 disks)
• Backpack CD-ROM version 2.13 Setup for DOS and Windows 3/95/98/NT (1 disk)
• 3com 3c5x9x.exe (drivers for 3Com Etherlink Network Interface Card)

If you're setting up a new Windows95 installation

• insert in the A drive the Windows 95 Boot Disk with Utilities
• power on the system
• format the hard drive with system
• at DOS prompt A:\> type FORMAT C: /S and press Enter
• power off the system
• insert in the A drive the Win95 Boot Disk w Backpack/Sound
• power on the system
• the AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS on this disk should have identified the Backpack and assigned it the next available drive letter (D: unless the system has additional drives)
• make the CD-ROM the active drive
• at DOS prompt type D: and press Enter
• Type SETUP and press Enter
• Windows 95 Setup Procedure should begin

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