Plug this thing into a Zip Drive and you deserve a Nobel Prize.
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That looks like a CF-to-PCMCIA adapter (could be ExpressCard/54, but I don’t think so). If so… that means that that CF adapter could be plugged into a PCMCIA-to-PCI adapter in a desktop PC. Which would add one more level of unnecessary complication to and already unnecessarily complicated setup. And isn’t that the point here?
Ok, but does it work ? If yes, that would say a lot for the interoperability of all those stacked standard (and yes, I have some doubts).
Except these aren’t all DIFFERENT standards, they’re mostly exactly the same standard, in different form factors. eg. SD to MiniSD to MicroSD. These adapters are wired straight-through with no electronics inside.
Yep. Nearly the same deal between Compact Flash and PCMCIA: Compact Flash is just a 50-pin subset of the 68-pin PCMCIA standard in a smaller form-factor, and without the bus-mastering functions.
Yo dawg, we heard you like adapters so we put an adapter into your adapter so you can stick it into another adapter.
At this point, I think we have to cue the Edith Piaf music…
And now put that adapter into one of those old floppy adapters…
http://www.ebay.com/sch/items/floppy-disk-adapter
What about adapters for actual *floppies*? The old 8″ and 5¼” disks.
You can get USB-based floppy drives, believe it or not. I don’t know why you’d ever want to use one, though.
If your like me, you have a stack of old floppy’s filled with data. I’ve got pics on floppy’s that I haven’t seen in over 12 years.
OMG, and the floppy adapter would take what? Half a century to read a 2GB memory stick?
it’s like those russian nesting dolls.
+1
WANT!
we need to go deeper
This isnt as complex as it sounds. The Micro-SD -> Mini SD -> SD stack has no active electronics, its just physical adapting. The CF-> SD adapter is well known, and commonly done. The CF -> PCMCIA adapter is also just physical, as the CF standard follows the PCMCIA standard.
The only actual, active electronics adapter in the whole stack is the SD -> CF adapter. Throw in a CF -> USB adapter, then a USB->PCMCIA adapter, and then you get some real crap goin on.
You can put more in there in place of CF -> USB. Try CF -> IDE, IDE -> USB, USB PCI card, USB PCI slot ( yes, they exist) and then USB -> PCMCIA.
Doesn’t matter how complex it actually is, IMO. The more unyielding it gets and the more complex it *looks*, the better!
I don’t think the SD-CF adapter is plugged in properly. I think that’s the joke here. It ALMOST works. So close yet so far.
_None_ of them are plugged together properly. They are expanded out to demonstrate all the layers of adapters being used. If it was put together properly, you wouldn’t be able to see what was going on _at_all_, because each fits completely within the next adapter and it would all be inside the laptop on the right edge of the picture
All this for a measly 2gb of space?
Photo may have been taken awhile back, when that was a LOT for a MicroSD. My phone’s got a 256mb one that I’ve yet to fill.
Remember, as information storage goes, two gigs is a good-sized moving van full of books* – probably more books than you will read in your lifetime – all squeezed down into something the size of your fingernail.
*or one Robert Jordan novel.
i love your footnote
*or one 200-word Powerpoint presentation.
i have a PowerPoint presentation due for my public speaking class. i loathe power point. i’m procrastinating,obviously.
No, more likely you loathe public speaking (Like most people do). Power point is just the convenient tool you’re blaming it on.
Get a slide projector, its the same thing.
Actually, it isn’t more books that I would read in a lifetime. I have already read more books than you can shove into a 2 gig drive (ASCII format) and am still reading. One gigabyte will hold the text of over 1,000 average books thus two gigabytes will hold 2,000 books. I OWN over 15,000 books, 10,000+ being hardback and I have read them all. That isn’t counting the ones I have read that I do not own.
Bitch please. Preferably a redhead.
I got a 32 MB CF 1 card in my digital camera. Enough.
Back when MemeryStick’s were super expensive, I did a similar thing with a MemStick>SD adapter for Nokia phones to it was MiniSD to SD to Memstick all hanging out of my PSP from a ribbon cable.