Re: Microdrive-like device using SD cards?

[pitz <pitz.wong@gmail.com>]

On Feb 15, 9:20 am, "Jayson Smith"
<ihatespamratguynospample...@insightbb.spamsucks.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>      Just an interesting question here. I have the Microdrive card that uses
> CF cards, and love it! But I kind of get the impression that CF cards really
> aren't that popular any more. For one thing, they're a lot bigger than some
> of the modern cards out there. Please let me know if I'm wrong about this!
> Anyway, we have several devices in our home that use SD cards. So I was
> wondering, does an equivalent to the Microdrive exist, but that uses SD
> cards? In the best of all possible worlds, it would use something like a FAT
> or FAT32 filesystem with .dsk or similar images, and let you swap, copy,
> etc. from your PC, not having to use CiderPress.
> Thanks!
> Jayson

You could also get one of those cheap CF-SD adapters (maybe $3) from
eBay to use SD cards instead of CF cards.  The CFFA version in the
works will also allow loading images from a USB drive, aside from a CF
card.