External modular bay for housing I/O devices

Details External modular bay for housing I/O devices External modular bay for housing I/O devices

1997-08-04

2000-10-17

De Cady, Albert

Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/

Input/output data processing

Peripheral adapting

710 2, G06F 1300

Patent

active

061346128

ABSTRACT:
An external flexible bay system includes an external flexible bay, a modular battery pack and a modular disk drive. The external flexible bay is adapted to receive either the modular battery pack or the modular disk drive to facilitate use of such devices with a portable PC. The external flexible bay includes a parallel port which enables an external I/O device, such as a printer, to be connected thereto. The external flexible bay contains circuitry to automatically sense whether a printer is connected and to determine whether a modular battery pack or modular disk drive has been inserted therein. In order to ensure proper configuration, the external flexible bay includes a mode switch for selecting between a floppy mode and a printer mode.

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