"Anthony J. Albert" wrote: > Any PCMCIA [a.k.a. PC Card] reader which is not built into a notebook > computer is going to do one of two things, as far as I have seen: > 1. hook to a serial or USB port > 2. hook to a proprietary PCI/ISA bus controller. Yep. I ordered a "PC Smartcard reader", which I expected to have one of the above, and what they sent me was a "PCMCIA Smartcard reader" with neither. I'd be simple if I could find a cable to go from the ISA mthbd to the PCMCIA. > > Try finding a friend with a notebook computer, which has built-in > PCMCIA slots, and see if you can read the pictures from the media that > way. I live way out in the boondock Ozarks; most of my friends have fur and four legs, except for Jethro, who has three, ... and dont have laptops. I have not even seen one since a flatlander came up this way from Little Rock a coupla years ago. > Compact Flash media has a special mode in which a simple adaptor can > interface it to an IDE port. You also can get Compact Flash adaptors > to let you use CF media in a PCMCIA slot. Looks like that slot on an open architecture pc would be useful. thanx Albert. To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
