On 1 Aug 2002 at 12:16, Ghost in the Machine wrote: >Hello Anthony - >---------- >> Finally picked up a 16MB CompactFlash card, so that I could do some >> additional testing. >> >> I set up the CF card on an CF-to-IDE adaptor, > >I was pleasantly surprised to find that you have this >for a legacy `386 machine! :-) > >I am very interested in what you are doing with this. Can >you give out specifics about this adapter, cost, location, >etc.?
Sure. I've mentioned it on-list before, but the CF-to-IDE adaptor I have is one that I purchased a year or two ago from: http://www.pcengines.com/cflash.htm They have three different models to choose from: CFDISK.1B: 40 pin IDE connector, HDD power connector CFDISK.1B: 40 pin IDE connector, floppy power connector CFDISK.2C, 2.5" form factor, 44 pin IDE connector (for notebook use) Cost is US$20 plus shipping. [I've gotten at least that much fun out of playing around with it.] It's a little unit, has four mounting holes in the corners, and standard IDE and power connectors. It also has a socket for a CF card, which slides in nicely, and all the electronics needed to make the CF card work in its "IDE compatible" mode. (This is mostly a couple of capacitors and resistors.) Plug the card in, turn the power on, and use the BIOS auto-detect to find & set the parameters, and off you go. >> installed MS-DOS 6.22, >> and then installed Windows 3.1 to the CF card. > >Were these installed from the original installation diskettes >or some other method? Straight from (copies of) the original diskettes. >> I turned off virtual >> memory entirely during the installation process, and did not install >> the help files, to keep the installed size of Windows down. > >Hmmm ... long term when you want to use this W31 for Internet >browsing etc. having only 8 meg might be a tight squeeze. Opera >or Arachne would be OK with that amount of memory (I think?) but >if you needed something line Netscape v4.08 for javascripting 8 >meg would be difficult to work with IMO. Of course... I'm not really intending to do too much serious work with this system, just use it for testing, at the moment. I do have a modem for it, and have been playing Sid Meir's Civilization on it from time to time. Which game I actually installed on the CF last night - runs quite well! >> The computer being used is has an AMD386DX40 processor with 128KB of >> cache memory, 8MB of DRAM on 30-pin SIMMs, and all I/O done via an all- >> in-one IDE, floppy, serial port, parallel port ISA card, with a serial >> mouse. Video via Trident 1MB ISA card. System video setting was left >> at 640x480x16, and no additional drivers were loaded beyond the Windows >> defaults. > >W31 Internet browsing is much better at 800x600 displays here but 640x480 >is useable. Oh, yes, just didn't want to get into driver fussing around before benchmarking the performance. I prefer more colors than 16, myself, for WWW browsing. :-) Please, everyone feel free to ask questions about this. Anthony J. Albert =========================================================== Anthony J. Albert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems and Software Support Specialist Postmaster Computer Services - University of Maine, Presque Isle "I gots yer four basic food groups right here: bacon, beans, whiskey, and lard!" - Cookie, from Disney's _Atlantis_ 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
