Peter Gofton wrote:
>
> What is involved in adding a CD-ROM (to a 917LX)?  Can you just attach a
> generic SCSI CD-ROM and will it automatically be recognized?  Could I just
> borrow one from another machine and attach it when I need to install updates
> ? Also, can you do the same thing with external SCSI hard disks?
> (Remembering many happy hours trying to find xx,xxx contiguous blocks for
> past MPE upgrades.)
>
 
Don't know about most of these questions, but the cd-rom is a *boot* device
for MPE, so it may matter a great deal that you use HP's own cd-rom.  I
believe the list price is about $650 from HP.  Perhaps the used market has
some cheaper?
 
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