PCMCIA

[Vincent Sanders]

On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 11:50:39AM +0000, Adrian Godwin wrote:
> 
> In discussing the pcb with a friend, we've come to the
> conclusion that the connector near the ROMs (PL3), under
> the barcode, is the correct footprint for a PCMCIA 
> connector.

Indeed well done...
Ok here it comes!
Its is not a PCMCIA connector, they just used it as a conveniant footprint!

Attaching pcmcia devices here would be bad! (as in magic smoke escaping bad)

To have a real PCMCIA port you wouuld need a buffer chip and various other bits
It *might* (if your soldering were good enuf) be possible to attach an ISA
PCMCIA card to the 7k5 bus, trouble is by the time youve done it it would 
be simpler and less expensive to simply buy a full 7k5 dev board from Simtec.

> 
> Any ideas what support the NC ROMs might have for PCMCIA
> mass storage ?

They have none as RISC OS/NC OS never had support for PCMCIA tgere was a
devloper module and a podule card long ago but noting betond memory cards ever
worked, certianly there has never been a commercial release.

> 
> -adrian
> 
>

Best Regards Vincent
PS Sorry for spoiling an otherwise good idea