An 11-ounce, pocket-size portable hard drive with a capacity of 170 to 810 MB, the Plugger (from $499) connects to any parallel printer port on DOS and OS/2 systems. From Computer Connections America (Bedford, MA), the drive has an access time of 12 ms and supports Stacker and DoubleSpace. The Plugger is also EPP compliant and has a printer pass-through, keyboard and mouse power adapters, and an AC wall plug.
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