Yes, I know about some PCMCIA card dock. For my personal use, I will go
for that option (PCMCIA). But when you want to do something for buyers,
It's strange (for me) to sell kits from another compagny with it. Beside
that you can change the case of the dock or put a big label with your logo
on it. ;)

You know, 3 1/2" floppy drive is a standard device on almost any PC with
no extra cost.

Bruno

On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Mark Willis wrote:

> SCM Microsystems makes the SwapBox Classic (pretty versatile PCMCIA type
> 2 + Type 3 dock) for desktop systems.  There are lots of other
> manufacturers for this sort of thing (I've bought these for as low as
> $10 on occasion.  Need to sell off my Non-SCM units, now that I have a
> lifetime supply of SCM's, some day!)  NecX has had a simple $10-$15
> 1-device PCMCIA dock for a while, unsure if they have it now, that'll
> give you access to a PCMCIA card (Compact Flash just takes a $15 adapter
> & then fits into a PCMCIA type 2 slot.)  Beats putting your palmtop onto
> the home LAN, though using a laptop is easy enough to do.
>
> (Cheating)  My Embedded Development PC's with the Needham's EMP-10 &
> EMP-20, will probably read EEProms 'directly', well, through those
> programmers anyways =)  A Needham's PB-10 is only $129 or so?  <EG>
>
>   Mark
>
> Bruno Tremblay wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >         The idea to use a flash card or EEPROM is good for (let say) a new
> > device. But the problem is when you want use your stored data. To my
> > knowledge, only laptop can read flash card, and I don't know any PC that
> > can read EEPROM directly. So, a floppy is a good idea too.
>