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To: James Choi who wrote (1501)	11/12/1997 4:42:00 PM
From: Gary Spiers	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

>>CompactFlash transforms itself into PCMCIA card when fitted into an adapter ($20 or so). << The vendors I know include the adapter free - no cost to the consumer. >>There are PCMCIA ports made for desktop PCs. About $150 will buy you a port that looks awefully like 3.5" floppy drive except the opening is smaller.<< Some versions combine a 3.5in floppy and pcmcia in a single slot. Some machines come with pcmcia drives preinstalled - my home machine came with two as standard. >>Kodak Digital cameras come with serial port adapter for both PC and Mac. You just transfer it over the wire but it is slow. Remember that we are dealing with tens of megabytes here.<< Yea verily (bitter experience speaks)! The size issue also explains the limitation of the floppy drive based camera IMHO. There has been some discussion of a box for CF to n-hand file copying but to me this does not make sense - the limited increase in storage capacity does not seem to be worth the cost - I would think a CF to zip box more functional. Gary

To: James Choi who wrote (1501)	11/12/1997 10:03:00 PM
From: Frank M. McHugh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

I have an EPIX PRO digital camera that takes a type II or type III card. The camera came with a 2mb sandisk type II flash card. I purchased a Maxtor PCMCIA 105mb type III hard drive card. The camera has a serial transfer but it is slow and unreliable so I purchased a PCMCIA type II & III drive with a floppy port fo $50, this works great. I purchased the 105mb type III drive because the cost per mb was .85 vs $25 for the flash card. The down side on the type III is a battery draw that is double the flash card and it takes about 30 sec. for the camera to be ready to reshoot vs 8sec. for the flash card.