Micro Solutions Backpack Parallel port Driver Reviews

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Dom
Tested on Windows XP
8 Jan 2010
(21 minutes after download)
 

Installation: 1 out of 5
Stability: 1 out of 5
Compatibility: 1 out of 5
 
"worthless, not a driver file, a sys file, could not install"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
pdp100
Tested on Windows 98SE
23 Apr 2009
(1 week after download)
 

Installation: 3 out of 5
Stability: 3 out of 5
Compatibility: 3 out of 5
 
"Single dotsys file?? maybe good if that's all you need; need more for pcmcia though..."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Donald Darden
Tested on Windows 2000 Professional
7 Apr 2009
(1 week after download)
 

Installation: 1 out of 5
Stability: 1 out of 5
Compatibility: 1 out of 5
 
"Olay, let's be fair about this. The BackPack drives are old technology. requiring a parallel port and either DOS or early version of a Windows OS, in some cases Win 3.1. I would not even contemplate trying to find Win 3.1 and installing it on a newer PC, but some might think DOS is still viable, and I did find a site that offers a free download of various DOS versions tha
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Msalas373

6 Nov 2003
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"I know it works in the config.sys,,,put how do you use it after you edit config.sys,,,,what is the command line or how do you use this file?"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
]{raqur

11 Apr 2002
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"exactly what i needed... mucho thanks... )"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
justin

23 Dec 2001
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"what is the coding exactly? i'm not stupid, just lazy."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
David Charles

11 Apr 2001
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"hmmm its a sys driver which means it goes in your config sys... and it uses a device= command then you use mscdex in your autoexec.bat and wow... it works perfectly"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
david

13 Jan 2001
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"there is no driver to make a comment about."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Peter Dos Ramos

10 May 2000
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"It did not work.... I prob. don't know how to use it..."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Peter Stanhope

29 Mar 2000
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"There is no .inf file."
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Earl Baker
Tested on Windows 98SE
21 Oct 2008
(1 week after download)
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"This driver works great on my Dell laptop thats running Windows 98 s.e."
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Bruce M
Tested on Windows XP
13 Jul 2007
 

Installation: 1 out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility: 1 out of 5
 
"Could not get this tiny file to do anything.

The full install driver took less than a floppy and worked flawlessly."

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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Charles Graney
Tested on Windows 98SE
27 Mar 2007
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 4 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"All is well. Did what I needed it to do."
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Bert Roussel
Tested on Windows 98SE
10 Jan 2007
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"C'est un super site les amis merci"
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
William
Tested on Windows XP
14 Mar 2006
 

Installation: 1 out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility: 1 out of 5
 
"Driver language not found and unable to open the driver to use on the laptop"
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Dykgruvis

17 Nov 2004
 

Installation: 4 out of 5
Stability: 4 out of 5
Compatibility: 4 out of 5
 
"Very nice, I had by an old version of Backpack whitout driver. I´m just sing in and now I hadit just a few minut lather."
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
RICHARD

30 Aug 2004
 

Installation: 1 out of 5
Stability: 2 out of 5
Compatibility: 1 out of 5
 
"out dated driver as is the PNP405d.exe"
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Ken

4 Jun 2004
 

Installation: 3 out of 5
Stability: 4 out of 5
Compatibility: 2 out of 5
 
"Did not work for me.

It does work fine in my friends system.

This could be an error on my part."

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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Kevin Da Short One

22 Apr 2004
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"didn;t work... was hopping to use it for my:

shuttle epati rev# 00 :("

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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Albert

1 Apr 2004
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"I'v had this cdrom for year's,put aside for lack of a driver.I hope this one work's."
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Brian thies
Tested on Windows 95b (osr2)
29 Jul 2015
(5 years after download)
 

Installation: 4 out of 5
Stability: 4 out of 5
Compatibility: 4 out of 5
 
"To get a legacy machine loaded via CD, This file is necessary to load a parallel port CD drive.

Microsolutions Backpack Driver"

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