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|    Re: SD2IEC card drive recommendation    |
|    07 Oct 22 17:16:17    |
      MSGID: 1:130/230@fidonet 6340b343       PID: C-NET AMIGA BBS 5.34b       On Fri 7-Oct-2022 12:37a, Robert Bernardo@3:770/3.0 said to Fred Beans:       RB> On Sunday, October 2, 2022 at 8:39:42 PM UTC-4, Fred Beans wrote:              RB> Most SD2IEC's being sold use a cassette port adapter so that power       RB> can be drawn from that C64/128/VIC-20 cassette port edge connector.        RB> However, the Plus/4 uses a 7-pin mini DIN cassette port connector, and so       RB> for the Plus/4, you'd have to buy/build        RB> an adapter with a male, mini-DIN plug and a female cassette port edge       RB> socket, or you'd have to find SD2IEC's that don't draw power from the       RB> cassette port. Such SD2IEC's, which draw their power from the Commodore              I don't use the cassette port on my uIEC/SD, I picked up a USB power cord and       plug that into the uIEC/sd and get power from that, the unit just sits on the       table behind my Ultimate 64..        --- CNet/5        * Origin: Future World II - fw2.cnetbbs.net:6800 (1:130/230)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/0 18/200 90/1 105/81 106/201 633 987 120/340 123/131       SEEN-BY: 124/5014 5016 129/305 130/230 330 153/7715 218/700 226/30       SEEN-BY: 227/114 229/110 111 112 113 206 275 317 400 424 426 428 470       SEEN-BY: 229/664 700 266/512 282/1038 317/3 320/219 322/757 342/200       SEEN-BY: 387/25 26 396/45 460/58 712/848       PATH: 130/230 396/45 229/426           |
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