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Re: Unidentified subject!


On Nov 16, 13:00, Jeff Fox wrote:
> Subject: Unidentified subject!
| I lost the question about if you can make a PCMCIA to UVPROM
| jumper at home.
|
| The answer is:  Yes.  It is easy to do.  You can get PCMCIA header
| from DIGI-KEY (HR801-ND) for $6.24 (1-800-digi-key), a 32pin dip
| socket, and some wire and solder.  I can provide the schemetic.
| They also have a 128k byte PCMCIA card for $70.50 (BN-128HMCE-ND)
| from Panasonic, and one for $64.64 from Epson (LWB129SD20-ND) but
| I have not tried either of these cards.  Up to a 1 meg card
| can be used without adding any more address lines.  If you want
| to use a 2Meg card you will have to run an extra address line
| to the PCMCIA header.  And if you want to attach an i/o card
| (not memory) you will need to run an i/o signal to the PCMCIA
| header also.  I have not yet done either of these things.
|
| I do not know how many PCMCIA cards or headers Dr. Ting has
| in stock, he might have a few.
|
| Jeff Fox
|
>-- End of excerpt from Jeff Fox
"comp.sys.palmtops" often talks about 1 MByte SRAM cards that work in both
Newtons and HP100LX for about $50 from a vendor whose name I've forgotten.




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