1. Introduction
1.1 General Information
The PCD2-F PCMCIA Card Drive allows ISA bus personal
computers to use PCMCIA memory cards as solid state diskettes , or as an
interface for I/O cards.
The PCD2-F provides many features to the computer user. The
PCMCIA Card Drives are much faster than standard diskettes. No
mechanical moving parts are used, resulting in significantly greater
reliability. Data can be conveniently transported between laptop
computers equipped with PCMCIA sockets and desktop computers
equipped with the PCD2-F.
This dual slot drive is to be installed into one 3.5" or 5.25" floppy
drive bay, the latter requiring the Quatech PCD2 adapter. The upper slot
is 'slot 0' and the lower slot is 'slot 1.' The system can support Type I,
Type II, Type III, and Type IV PC Cards. It is PCMCIA 2.1/JEDIA 4.1
compliant. The PCD2-F also supports ATA card drives.
The system can be obtained with an optional boot ROM for system
booting from a memory card and/or an optional Microsoft Flash File
System.
The drive also supports the full line of Quatech Cards, including
RS-232, RS-422/485 in single or multi-port versions. It supports data
acquisition cards with 12-bit or 16-bit resolution. Multi-protocol adapters,
providing asynchronous, monosync, BISYNC, SDLC, and HDLC
protocols are supported. Parallel port adapters operated in EPP mode are
also supported.
Cardsoft software, from Systemsoft, is included for support in
MS-DOS, and WINDOWS 3.1x. WINDOWS 95 is self supporting.
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