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Mounted within the chassis is a motherboard commonly referred to as a backplane to which the drive carriers are detachably connected. In an alternate unit, which eliminates the universal receiving frame, the removable carriers are connected to one side of a backplane with in the chassis and the pull-out peripheral circuit boards are connected to the opposite side. This invention relates to receptacles by which different removable carriers having portable computer drives connected for either serial or parallel operation can be interchangeably received within the same chassis or storage enclosure so as to be interfaced with a host computer without having to make alterations to the computer drives or the chassis.

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