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Re: SD2IEC card drive recommendation

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From: nospam.Gary.McCulloch@f50.n154.z1.fidonet.org (Gary McCulloch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: SD2IEC card drive recommendation
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2022 22:20:27 +1300
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by: Gary McCulloch - Wed, 5 Oct 2022 09:20 UTC

On Mon 3-Oct-2022 5:54p, Al Derosa@1:267/157.0 said to Fred Beans:
AD> My suggestion is Jim Brains uIEC/SD I own 1 and have used it for a few
AD> years now. I pop a SD card in and copy my files to it, it accepts JiffyDOS
AD> commands and have used it to enter and mount .d64, .d71, and .d81 images
AD> with no issues at all.. In fact when I was copying my Lt Kernal HD over to
AD> my Emulated system, I backed up to .d81 images on a uIEC/SD card, then
AD> copied them to my PC via a SD Card reader and mounted them and copied the
AD> files off the images. You can have 12 partitions on it and pretty much if
AD> you want treat it like a hard drive. You might want to read up on it at
AD> go4retro.com Jim Brain is a good guy and is keeping the Commodore alive
AD> with what he sells...

I would have to agree. Al pointed me in that direction and I now have
1 for my C64 which is running my BBS and one for my C128. They both work great
without any issues.

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SD2IEC card drive recommendation	Gary McCulloch

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