6 Mar
2009
6 Mar
'09
9:37 a.m.
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 10:40, Paul Koning <Paul_Koning at dell.com> wrote:
That's what I was thinking to use. For me, speed wouldn't matter so
much so long as it is comparable to the floppy - and even if data rate
would be slower, access and seek times would be near nil.
Joe.
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Joachim Thiemann :: http://www.tsp.ece.mcgill.ca/~jthiem
>>>> "Joachim" == Joachim Thiemann <joachim.thiemann at
gmail.com> writes:
?Joachim> But at the expense of convenience, the SDHC parport
?Joachim> interface would be super simple and thus cheap. ?In fact,
?Joachim> the minimal implementation would require: - DB25 parport
?Joachim> plug - protoboard - 6 resistors - a way to connect a SD card
?Joachim> (could be soldering pins directly to a SD-microSD converter
?Joachim> and one can still swap microSD cards) - some wire ...
I'm not sure about "super simple". ?I think SD cards have an MMC
compability mode that's pretty simple (I2C, or SPI, one of those).
But that's a legacy ultra-slow interface.