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a couple, or just search google (or froogle maybe) for slimline ide adapter
or something like that

-Mike

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<div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"border-left: 1px solid rgb(=
204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">&gt; if it m=
akes you feel any better, Micro$loth sold these consoles at a<br>&gt; loss =
intending to make it up on the sales of their games.&nbsp;&nbsp;so any time
<br>&gt; they are purchased with no intention of buying games you're &quot;=
stickin'<br>&gt; it to the man&quot;. ;)<br>&gt; and if you buy it used wit=
h the intention of 'repurposing' the<br>&gt; hardware, well, you're still &=
quot;stickin' it to the man&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp;:D
<br><br>Yes, in fact it does make me feel better, since Microsoft apparentl=
y<br>lost that bet, I don't think they made a whole lot on games.<br><br>Is=
 this true of the X-Box 360 as well? They seem pretty pricey.<br><br>Anyway=
, I received the little box that started this thread. One
<br>problem I see is that it has a standard 40-pin IDE connector on the<br>=
mobo, but uses laptop-style drives.<br><br>They included the adapter to use=
 a laptop hard drive, but nothing to<br>get from the 40/80 pin ribbon into =
the connector on a slim style
<br>laptop CD drive, anybody know where I could get such an adaptor ? It<br=
>would obviously have to get both IDE and power into the drive connector.<b=
r><br>I can just connect a standard CD dirve to get the system loaded onto
<br>the hard drive, but of course that means I can't close the case,<br>whi=
ch I'd like to be able to do :-)</blockquote><div><br>
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Yeah, I think I have one or two lying around :-P<br>
<br>
You can probably pick them up at a Fry's or Microcenter or similar
computer store, though places like Circuit City etc don't carry them as
far as I know.<br>
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