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I wish we also had SD card readers we could attach to old IDE or SCSI controllers instead of old hard drives. Given the low speed ancient controllers and CPUs c

I wish we also had SD card readers we could attach to old IDE or SCSI controllers instead of old hard drives. Given the low speed ancient controllers and CPUs can do IO at a modern microcontroller could probably do any complex mapping without problems.

walrus01 6y ago
such things do exist: https://www.amazon.com/Sintech-SDHC-Adapter-40Pin-Driver/dp/B00KZI94HC https://www.amazon.com/Sintech-SDHC-Adapter-40Pin-Driver/dp/... https://brainbaking.com/post/2020/09/486-upgrade-sd-hdd/ https://brainbaking.com/post/2020/09/486-upgrade-sd-hdd/ https://www.drem.info/ https://www.drem.info/ http://hxc2001.free.fr/floppy_drive_emulator/ http://hxc2001.free.fr/floppy_drive_emulator/
- qwerty456127 6y ago
  Cool. Thank you.
pan69 6y ago
These are indeed very common as walrus01 points out. I use the CompactFlash versions in my 286, 386 and 486 set ups.
InvaderFizz 6y ago
In addition to the products walrus01 pointed out is the SCSI2SD[0] which I used to retrofit some very old manufacturing systems in a previous job. 0: http://www.codesrc.com/mediawiki/index.php/SCSI2SD http://www.codesrc.com/mediawiki/index.php/SCSI2SD
codazoda 6y ago
Not the same thing, but I recently wired a simple audio cable up for my TRS-80 (1980). I can then use the cassette save and load commands to store files on an SD card in my digital audio recorder.