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Re: SD2IEC card drive recommendation

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From: nospam.Bucko@f230.n130.z1.fidonet.org (Bucko)
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Subject: Re: SD2IEC card drive recommendation
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2022 17:16:17 +1300
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by: Bucko - Fri, 7 Oct 2022 04:16 UTC

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..

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SD2IEC card drive recommendation	Bucko