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Nur, There are a number of LAN-based VideoConferencing systems however there are honestly severe limitations with these because there is still insufficient processing power in the PC – even in a 100MHz Pentium. All the LAN based systems available today are low frame rate, low resolution and indifferent motion handling…

>>most of the readership isn't apt to be designing multimedia presentations on their laptops (or anywhere, probably!)…

John: >Indeed I know of several parallel and serial CD-ROM drives that work fine for data retrieval, not so good for multimedia presentations as these units have an increased amount of "CPU drag" making playback sluggish for multimedia purposes.< Boy, am *I* glad you let me know about that! I've…

The Toshiba T6600 can be had with a CD. It's luggable, alright -not battery powered- but it's built like a tank. Will take lots of abuse, and it has 2 ISA slots for playback/capture cards. I manufacture a DVI (ActionMedia II clone) board specifically for the T6600.

John: >Hope this helps your writing of the article. < It helps a great deal. In fact, I was thinking already of including one standalone CD-ROM external portable drive for those folks who don't want to give up their current laptop but still want CD-ROM capability. As for throughput, it's…

Thanks for the advice. Your comments have been up to par with what everyone else has been telling me. I appreciate the tip on the book by Tay Vaughan. I will definitly try to locate it this week at our local bookstores. Thanks again, Tommy Fulton