Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/04/15

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Subject: [Leica] adapter help
From: leowesson at gmail.com (leo wesson)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:47:37 -0500
References: <3e7573d40904151740g3a9f7b63yfeb1fdf58f33232e@mail.gmail.com> <1E763F4DFC607FB734233C3E@hindolveston.reid.org>

Brian,

I was all excited till I saw the fine print.

"note: The Panasonic P2 card is a 32-bit Cardbus device and therefore is not
supported with the Pocket UDD"

Which is, of course, what I wanted it for.

Shucks.


Leo Wesson
Photographer/Videographer
817.733.9157
www.leowesson.com


On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Brian Reid <reid at 
mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>wrote:

>
>  Is anyone aware of an adapter that will allow me to download a pcmcia card
>> via a firewire or usb port?
>> Can't seem to locate one.
>>
>
> They are hard to find. The PCMCIA specification was very loose, and it's
> extremely hard to build an adapter that will work with all cards. And there
> are so few such cards any more that there's not much incentive for a
> manufacturer to make one. They might get 100 customers worldwide.
>
> This is the only adapter that I am aware of that is still being sold:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Addonics-AEPUDDU-Pocket-Ultra-DigiDrive/dp/B00006L318
>
> Good old Addonics. They make all manner of good trailing-edge stuff.
>
>
>
>
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