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- From: easton@zds-oem.zds.com (Jeff Easton)
- Subject: Re: anybody used their PCMCIA port yet?
- Organization: Zenith Data Systems, OEM Systems Engineering
- Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 18:29:07 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan06.182907.28937@zds-oem.zds.com>
- References: <JET.93Jan5171629@boxer.nas.nasa.gov>
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- In article <JET.93Jan5171629@boxer.nas.nasa.gov> jet@boxer.nas.nasa.gov (J. Eric Townsend) writes:
- >
- >
- >I was just glancing at Open Systems Today, and they had a reasonably
- >interesting article about the "standardization" of PCMCIA cards. It
- >looked prettty cool, an ethernet card for $400 or so, wireless cards,
- >PCMCIA<->you_name_it I/O adapters, PCMCIA ram expansion, etc etc.
- >
- >So, have you found a PCMCIA card for your Amiga yet? Perhaps it's the
- >perfect place to put one of those game-cracker doodads?
-
- I got to borrow a 256K SRAM PCMCIA card for a day to use on my
- A1200. It worked pretty much as advertised. I tried it as a card disk
- and as regular system ram.
-
- 3.0 provides the drivers to use a RAM PCMCIA card. It looks like
- your on your own for drivers when it comes to IO cards.
-
- >J. Eric Townsend -- jet@nas.nasa.gov -- 415.604.4311 (DoD# 0378)
-
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