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Re: PCMCIA Ram card for amiga 600/1200
« on: July 12, 2005, 07:28:12 AM »
I think Tools/PrepCard only supports 2MB SRAM cards.

These are 100-250ns volatile RAM cards with a 3v button battery as
backup. If the battery dies so does the data.

There is one in particular that seems good for Amiga PCMCIA Mode-1
slots and that is the Mitsubishi Melcard 2MB.

I emphasise PCMCIA-1 as it is an older standard than most modern
laptop memory cards come in and will have a different pin quantity and
layout.

A good alternative is to follow instructions on Aminet on how to use
PCMCIA flash card readers. I think they may be SCSI based and allow
reading of Compact Flash and all those little cards, as well as
PCMCIA-2 and PCMCIA-3 cards (even IBM Microdrives).

You could even rig up a Spider USB to the internal clockport and have
some sort of external door for USB memory pens!

:-)