Subj : Re: SD2IEC card drive recommendation
To   : Fred Beans
From : Robert Bernardo
Date : Fri Oct 07 2022 00:37:57

On Sunday, October 2, 2022 at 8:39:42 PM UTC-4, Fred Beans wrote:

> I am looking for suggestions of a device that is reasonably simple to use with multidisk images and would work on a C128/64 unit - Vic20 and Plus4 

     Most SD2IEC's being sold use a cassette port adapter so that power can be drawn from that C64/128/VIC-20 cassette port edge connector.  However, the Plus/4 uses a 7-pin mini DIN cassette port connector, and so for the Plus/4, you'd have to buy/build 
an adapter with a male, mini-DIN plug and a female cassette port edge socket, or you'd have to find SD2IEC's that don't draw power from the cassette port.  Such SD2IEC's, which draw their power from the Commodore user port, are marketed by The Future Was 
8 Bit.  Below are the links to their SD2IEC's with the user port option or with the user port adapter already there. 

https://www.thefuturewas8bit.com/shop/commodore/sd2iec-be.html
https://www.thefuturewas8bit.com/shop/commodore/sd2iec-gr.html
https://www.thefuturewas8bit.com/shop/commodore/sd2iec-sm.html

With these SD2IEC's, you can use them with all of your Commodores that you list.

          Writing from Haywards Heath, England,
          Robert Bernardo
          Fresno Commodore User Group - http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
          Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan
          Commodore Los Angeles Super Show - http://www.portcommodore.com/class

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