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- From: jsaklad@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu (Jim Saklad)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Add-on PCMCIA capability?
- Date: 9 Jan 1996 19:53:07 GMT
- Organization: HCF - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- On 04-Jan-96 21:04:16, Joseph Waldvogel commented:
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- >>I have seen ads for a PCMCIA card-reader that is intended to fit in a
- >>5╝" bay on a PeeCee. Does anyone know if it is possible to install one
- >>of these in a 5╝" bay on an Amiga? (And hope to be able to make it
- >>work?)
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- >>I mean, there is software to use PCMCIA cards on the A1200, so I should
- >>be able to use that on the A4000. I don't know how to hook it up
- >>internally, however.
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- > You wouldn't want to USE a PCMCIA Ram card in your A4000 even if it was
- > posible, not even in a A1200 which is! The RAM cards are 16-bit, the Amiga
- > 1200 and A4000 are 32-bit systems, you would Greatly SLOW your Amiga system
- > down using it! It's fine for a 16-bit A600, and them 16-bit CLONE systems.
- > I sure don't think it's worth it. Hell I think my A1200 030/50Mzh system is
- > just TOOOO Slow as it is, even with the 8 megs of 32-bit FAST RAM.
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- YOU might not want to use it. You don't know *what* _I_ might want to do.
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- Primarily, what I want to do is back up the 200LX on my Amiga (using CrossDos)
- rather than having to back it up on a PeeCee or Mac. If I could spend <$200
- for a device to put in my 5╝" bay to read PCMCIA cards, it would be worth it.
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