7-pin connector
Any compatible USB or Serial external CD-ROM drive should do good justice. If your ThinkPad supports SCSI interface and has a SCSI connector you can get a SCSI external drive. I would recommend Sony or Creative CD-ROM drive.
To connect an external hard drive it would, but that would be the only reason to connect USB.
A parallel connector, or parallel port, is an interface used to connect a computer to some external peripheral. An example of things that can hook up to a computer using a parallel port include a printer and/or a scanner. More recently, the USB interface has become extremely common and most types of devices that used to commonly hook up via parallel port now hook up by USB instead.
external serial ATA is six times faster
EIDE cable uses a 40-pin connector at the end of the cable to interface with the drive.
No. The floppy drive interface and the mini-ata interface on many 2.5 inch hard disks may appear compatible, but they are not.
An IDE connector is used to connect a CD-ROM drive or hard drive to a motherboard, with a long and flat ribbon cable.
ATAPI.
They can use many different interfaces depending on the drive, although most use USB. Although the four main are:USB 3USB 2eSataIEEE 1394 / Firewire
Yes, you can. You need to go to a electronics shop to purchase the external drive and cord. You will need to connect the cord to your internet box and stream to your external drive onto your laptop.
the optical drive will connect to the power supply with a connector called molex connecter it is a 4 prong connector
yes adjust the jumper at the back of the drive. it's a white block. it between the interface connector and power connector. you also want to set it aswell in the bios.