Reading CF Cards with Win 3.1

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I'd like to use a small Compaq subnotebook with its PCMCIA slot to
store/view digital images. (Nothing elaborate -- it's just small enough
to carry). I have a CompactFlash card reader that fits the PCMCIA slot.
But the old laptop runs only Win 3.1. Any ideas how to make this work?
Thanks.

-Cardamon Dave

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On 28 Jan 2005 10:10:58 -0800, Cardamon Dave wrote:
> I'd like to use a small Compaq subnotebook with its PCMCIA slot to
> store/view digital images. (Nothing elaborate -- it's just small enough
> to carry). I have a CompactFlash card reader that fits the PCMCIA slot.
> But the old laptop runs only Win 3.1. Any ideas how to make this work?

hmmmm.... Does any software from the 3.1 era even understand the
image encodings of _this_ era? I thought .gif's and .bmp's were it.
Tho', my memory of that time is fuzzy, as I went m$-free and moved
on to OS/2 in 1991, and then also linux in 2002.

'Sides, some CF cards are now larger than the HD model supported
by Win 3.1 (DOS 6.0).

Jonesy
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Allodoxaphobia wrote:
> On 28 Jan 2005 10:10:58 -0800, Cardamon Dave wrote:
>
>>I'd like to use a small Compaq subnotebook with its PCMCIA slot to
>>store/view digital images. (Nothing elaborate -- it's just small enough
>>to carry). I have a CompactFlash card reader that fits the PCMCIA slot.
>>But the old laptop runs only Win 3.1. Any ideas how to make this work?
>
>
> hmmmm.... Does any software from the 3.1 era even understand the
> image encodings of _this_ era? I thought .gif's and .bmp's were it.
> Tho', my memory of that time is fuzzy, as I went m$-free and moved
> on to OS/2 in 1991, and then also linux in 2002.
>
> 'Sides, some CF cards are now larger than the HD model supported
> by Win 3.1 (DOS 6.0).
>
> Jonesy

The Internet started getting very big as a consumer thing about the time
of the 3.1 to 95 transition. AFAICT, browsers to the 4.x series (IE4 at
least) were made for 3.1. JPEG can therefore be expected as workable.
The RAW format of a given cam, probably not.

Only a few CF cards exceed the 2Gb limit of a FAT16 filesystem.

I'd lean towards a CF->IDE adaptor.

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On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:06:56 -0800, "Bob Harrington"
<rch.NOS-PAM@blarg.net> wrote:

>Cardamon Dave wrote:
>> I'd like to use a small Compaq subnotebook with its PCMCIA slot to
>> store/view digital images. (Nothing elaborate -- it's just small
>> enough to carry). I have a CompactFlash card reader that fits the
>> PCMCIA slot. But the old laptop runs only Win 3.1. Any ideas how to
>> make this work? Thanks.
>>
>> -Cardamon Dave
>
>If you folks can help Dave with this, your next challenge will be to
>help me do the same on my TRS-80 Model I - I can't wait to see my photos
>displayed on that glorious 128 x 48 pixel x 1 bit display! I have
>already expanded the RAM to a full 48 kilobytes, so that shouldn't be a
>bottleneck... ;^)
>
>Bob ^,,^

============
Yes, and I am having a bit of a problem trying to get anti-lock brakes
and a stability control system to operate on my Model T Ford. Its a
hybrid, you know. Sometimes on hills, the wife gets out and helps
push while I gun the engine.
>

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On January 28 2005, "Bob Harrington" <rch.NOS-PAM@blarg.net> wrote:
> If you folks can help Dave with this, your next challenge will be to
> help me do the same on my TRS-80 Model I - I can't wait to see my
> photos displayed on that glorious 128 x 48 pixel x 1 bit display! I
> have already expanded the RAM to a full 48 kilobytes, so that
> shouldn't be a bottleneck... ;^)

Yeah, and I want to do it with my old Kaypro II. Only problem will be
breaking those megapixel image files up to fit on those 180k single-side
floppy disks.

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In article <00050029234427.OUI72.carl_miller23@hotmail.com>,
carl_miller23@hotmail.com says...
>
>On January 28 2005, "Cardamon Dave" <davek57@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I'd like to use a small Compaq subnotebook with its PCMCIA slot to
>> store/view digital images. (Nothing elaborate -- it's just small
>> enough to carry). I have a CompactFlash card reader that fits the
>> PCMCIA slot. But the old laptop runs only Win 3.1. Any ideas how to
>> make this work? Thanks.
>
>Sure. Just go to the card reader's website and download the Win 3.1
>drivers for that card reader. Once you've got that, it'll be a piece of
>cake.
>
>Um... good luck with those drivers.

Download the pics on a friend's computer with a CD burner, get a CD drive for
your computer, you may need SCSI, down load from there. Did a lot of work on
Win 3.1 with Photoshop 3 and Aldus Photostyler. Those were the days of Syquest
drives, and equipped computers with 64mb of RAM that cost over $500.

Tom
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