Re: CF with Ramfast

[dog_cow@macgui.com (D Finnigan)]

David Schmidt wrote:
> On 6/13/2012 2:41 PM, Michael J. Mahon wrote:
>> Wayne Stewart<waynejstewart@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> (...) I guess I need to hunt down some older CFs.
>>> Probably I should have done this a few years back when smaller CFs
>>> were in the stores.
>>
>> I'm also looking for a few name-brand, smaller CF cards, like 256MB, and
>> feel that I missed the "clearance sale" window. ;-)
>>
>> The speed of the CFFA is, I believe, independent of the speed of the CF
>> card, since they are all faster than an Apple II can drive them.
> 
> I've picked up batches of Sandisk 128s and 256s from ebay.  I've not 
> looked recently, but looking today ("sandisk 256 compact") - I see 
> sellers have gotten a bit greedier in the mean time. ;-)
>

I'll give out my secret again. I had great success buying the the cheapo 128
MB CF cards from those sellers in Hong Kong. They should be less than $3.
Now, the downside is that the shipping time is pretty expansive. I seem to
recall it took over a week to arrive. But the price is low, and these
sellers want to ensure that you have a good customer experience. The seller
sent me a message asking if everything had arrived OK.

I got both an IDE-CF adapter and a 128 MB CF card for less than $10 from
eBay.

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