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- From: Massimo.Mancini@rhein-neckar.de (Massimo Mancini)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AT Walker Project
- Date: 19 Mar 1996 03:01:38 GMT
- Organization: Lullaby of Birdland
- Message-ID: <1924.6651T1305T1270@rhein-neckar.de>
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- Howdy!
-
- [...]
- >>What!!!! In what bizare way do you think a second parallel port makes up
- >>for no SCSI option? No PCMCIA == no SCSI expandability == no way to use
- >>new Squirrel MPEG add-on. Where do I plug in my PCMCIA ethernet card now
- >>:-(
- >Don't know about your ethernet PCMCIA card, but you can still probably
- >use the SCSI + if there is an IDE header somewhere.
- Hey, it`s not only the SCSI INterfaces...
-
- What about _cheap_ but extremely fast and easy to use digitizers,
- network cards, high-speed serial cards, modems, programming devices
- etc.etc. ???
-
- I`d be more than happy about a PCMCIA option for my A4ooo as it would be
- easy to change the cards when you need anything else (like after doing some
- high-speed 16bit sampling changing the cards and plugging in an Eprommer to
- burn some EPROMs - and isn`t that beatiful scene on that tape worth a quick
- grab with the digitizer?).
-
- The Interface is 16bits and quite speedy, so it`s no solution the supply a
- slow 8bit parallel interface instead.
-
- BTW. These 3 examples above aren`t fictious... and I have some other
- interests, too, which would be ideal as PCMCIA expansions, but I only have
- one empty slot left and even if some of those pieces could be used via the
- parallel port it would be much slower any probably uglier (just think about
- plain sampling at high rates without disabling interrupts ?).
-
- My opinion is clear: PCMCIA is great if it would be supported somehow
- better, and if people could get info material about how to built compatible
- hardware on their own (if interested).
-
- If anyone has some material about the latter one, please contact me ! :)
-
- >D. G.
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