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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Marketplace => Topic started by: vic20owner on June 18, 2004, 11:28:46 PM
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I have a PCMCIA card for an A1200, but I need a network card for my A3000 since I no longer have a 1200. Anyone have anything for swap? I could throw in something else to make it even. I'm in the USA.
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Erm, the PCMCIA card is worth about $10. Cheapest new NIC that fits is an X-Surf at just a teensy bit more than that! (what I'm trying to say is your unlikely to find someone willing to swap ;-)).
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Nah... more like $25-$30 on ebay (usually), and it works on the A1200/600. Besides, I said I'd make up the difference. :P
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fair enough. I paid £5 (about $7-$8) a month ago - for use with an old 486 laptop thats now broken anyway ... ho hum ... it'll now serve as an appertiser bundled with my A1200 when I get round to selling it!
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Here in the U.S. Amiga related stuff seems to go for premium prices :(. I held on to this while planning to buy an A1200, but after settling on a 3000, I don't need it. I admit it was a longshot!
Why hasn't anyone built a PCMCIA adapter card for the 2000/3000? It'd be great to use a cheap pcmcia card in a 3000 :)
-tom
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Probably not worth the development costs! I got a second hand X-Surf for £35, havn't been able to test it yet (house upside down, only got my lap for my laptop ATM!).
It's not the tidiest solution but I'm looking forward to trying out the (non-bootable) IDE interface. Redrumloa had new X-Surf2s in pretty cheap ($130) last time I checked.
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vic20owner wrote:
Here in the U.S. Amiga related stuff seems to go for premium prices :(. I held on to this while planning to buy an A1200, but after settling on a 3000, I don't need it. I admit it was a longshot!
Why hasn't anyone built a PCMCIA adapter card for the 2000/3000? It'd be great to use a cheap pcmcia card in a 3000 :)
Because the world's already on to Cardbus by now, and that's basically PCI, and theoretically about to be obsoleted by ExpressCard sometime, which is PCI-Express + USB. :-o
If I had the money to waste (and still had 2000s in my vicinity), I'd go for a USB adapter, since that gives you a lot of flexibility with the sort of cheap peripherals you might ever want on a such a machine (ethernet, modems?, webcams, modern printers, Flash drives of various sorts that are pushing 1GB now, toothbrushes, mug warmers, etc...) ... but that's just my opinion.
"Etherbridge" from Aminet gives you an option if you can fit and set up a bridgeboard. (The 3000 had an ISA bridge slot, right?)
Someone else I ran into had the idea of cramming i386 Linux or NetBSD on their bridgeboard, then running PPP or SLIP or PLIP across a cable back to the Amiga side... I'm not sure how painful that'd be to set up, but it seems less lunatic in retrospect, now that I notice both packages seem to rely on MS-DOS drivers otherwise... and of course, you could use the embedded UNIX "machine" as a personal firewall. ;)