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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: 23703jim on March 08, 2006, 08:11:46 PM
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is there a pcmcia cd rom drive available that will be compatible with the a1200. e-bay has many pcmcia drives (cd) but i am not familiar with any that will work?
any help you might give me would be appreciated.
jim
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AFAIK no, but you could get a squirrel SCSI adapter and slap a SCSI cdrom on it.
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HI
the only 1 that i know of is the scsi squirrel device
that uses the pcmcia slot
( if there is any other device then someone will let you know )
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23703jim wrote:
is there a pcmcia cd rom drive available that will be compatible with the a1200. e-bay has many pcmcia drives (cd) but i am not familiar with any that will work?
any help you might give me would be appreciated.
jim
The old zappo CD-ROM drive comes to mind. I have one of these but it's only double speed and rarely used. You could also possibly connect a SCSI CD-ROM to a squirrel SCSI possibly?
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where might i find one of these zappo cd rom drives?
jim
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Another alternative is to get yourself a Subway USB interface (this plugs into the A1200's clock port and sits internally within the A1200's case) and get hold of a cheapo USB-based CD-ROM drive.
I was given an old Iomega ZipCD drive recently (it would have been binned otherwise!) and this seems to work fine on my A1200.
- Ali
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lorddef wrote:
AFAIK no, but you could get a squirrel SCSI adapter and slap a SCSI cdrom on it.
Good idea...where does one find a SCSI squirrel these days?
Bob