On 5 Sep 2001, at 20:38, Day Brown wrote:
>Anyone try to hook this up to an antique?
>Any idea of what the DTR is?
>
>Is the 68 pin PCMCIA compatable with the
>68 pin SCSI?
>
Dear Day Brown,
A PCMCIA card is not directly compatible with SCSI of any sort. In
order to use a PCMCIA card in a desktop computer, you'll need to have a
card reader (or 'card adaptor') for it.
There are some vendors, primarily laptop-oriented vendors which sell
PCMCIA or SmartMedia card readers. These tend to be adaptors which
hook into the USB port, but there are serial and parallel ones out
there, though they are a little harder to find.
A quick search finds several sorts of card readers, all USB at
Cyberguys.com, one of my usual shopping places. The site uses frames,
so look under "Input Devices / Card Readers". A direct link to the
page is:
http://www.cyberguys.com/cgi-
bin/sgsh0101.exe?FNM=16&UID=2001090605532187&HKW=5CG01&GEN6=00&GEN9=5CG0
1&PAGLEN=10&SKW=1np12
A look at SanDisk's www page shows that they are currently marketing a
device which hooks a SmartMedia card to a PC via the parallel port.
Their part number is: SDDR1101, and a search on that part number at
http://www.shopper.com shows that it's available for approx US $50 +
shipping.
Another quickie WWW search turns up the following vendor (whom I've
never done business) with a nice WWW page detailing numberous options:
http://www.epc-online.com/imagexfer/smartmedia_readers.html
Besides parallel port and USB models, they also have a floppy-disk
version. Looks like you put the SmartMedia card into this adaptor that
looks like a floppy, then put it into the floppy disk drive.
[ Interesting! ]
There are other ones out there, as well - a bit of WWW searching is
sure to turn them up, if you search for "Smartmedia reader" or
"Smartmedia card reader".
Data transfer rates are going to depend on the type of interface, of
course, but you should probably expect no more than 100KB/sec. at best,
and probably a lot less.
Hope this helps,
Anthony J. Albert
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