kluge needed: CF-II (or SDIO) <---> MemoryStick (or SmartMedia/MMS)

I'm planning to buy a Alphasmart Dana textmachine. It has slots for
CF-II and for SDIO.

I need to be able to take data off, and put data into, public
computers to which a 3.5" floppy-drive is my only available access.
There is no other access.

I own a couple of peices of the Sony Floppy Adaptor for MemoryStick.
I am willing to purchase, if needed, the Olympus SmartMedia/MMS
floppy-adaptor. Tell you the truth, I don't exactly know for sure what
an MMS memorychip is.

what will allow me to make the Dana slots talk to the Sony
MemorySticks(or Olympus SmartMedia chips)?

Also. I've seen desktop-type "drives" which accept 6 different kinds
of memory chips. who makes those?

On 14 Jan 2004 11:31:21 -0800, (Alan Horowitz)
wrote:

I'm planning to buy a Alphasmart Dana textmachine. It has slots for
CF-II and for SDIO.

I need to be able to take data off, and put data into, public
computers to which a 3.5" floppy-drive is my only available access.
There is no other access.

I own a couple of peices of the Sony Floppy Adaptor for MemoryStick.
I am willing to purchase, if needed, the Olympus SmartMedia/MMS
floppy-adaptor. Tell you the truth, I don't exactly know for sure what
an MMS memorychip is.

Do you mean MMC?


what will allow me to make the Dana slots talk to the Sony
MemorySticks(or Olympus SmartMedia chips)?



Also. I've seen desktop-type "drives" which accept 6 different kinds
of memory chips. who makes those?

All I can say is those are USB. Anybody that makes USB accessories
usually makes something like those.

"Alan Horowitz" wrote in message
om...
I'm planning to buy a Alphasmart Dana textmachine. It has slots for
CF-II and for SDIO.

I need to be able to take data off, and put data into, public
computers to which a 3.5" floppy-drive is my only available access.
There is no other access.

I own a couple of peices of the Sony Floppy Adaptor for MemoryStick.
I am willing to purchase, if needed, the Olympus SmartMedia/MMS
floppy-adaptor. Tell you the truth, I don't exactly know for sure what
an MMS memorychip is.

what will allow me to make the Dana slots talk to the Sony
MemorySticks(or Olympus SmartMedia chips)?

Also. I've seen desktop-type "drives" which accept 6 different kinds
of memory chips. who makes those?

Check out the Mitsumi FA404A. It is a combination card reader / 3.5" floppy
drive, should run you about 25-30 bucks. I have one and it works as
advertised. Here's a link for where I got mine.

http://store.yahoo.com/directron/fa404.html

"Alan Horowitz" wrote in message
om...
I'm planning to buy a Alphasmart Dana textmachine. It has slots for
CF-II and for SDIO.

I need to be able to take data off, and put data into, public
computers to which a 3.5" floppy-drive is my only available access.
There is no other access.

I own a couple of peices of the Sony Floppy Adaptor for MemoryStick.
I am willing to purchase, if needed, the Olympus SmartMedia/MMS
floppy-adaptor. Tell you the truth, I don't exactly know for sure
what
an MMS memorychip is.

what will allow me to make the Dana slots talk to the Sony
MemorySticks(or Olympus SmartMedia chips)?

Also. I've seen desktop-type "drives" which accept 6 different
kinds
of memory chips. who makes those?

Do you mean something like this:
http://www.mydigitaldiscount.com/pro...094016006189c7

On 14 Jan 2004 11:31:21 -0800, (Alan Horowitz)
wrote:

I'm planning to buy a Alphasmart Dana textmachine. It has slots for
CF-II and for SDIO.

I need to be able to take data off, and put data into, public
computers to which a 3.5" floppy-drive is my only available access.
There is no other access.

I own a couple of peices of the Sony Floppy Adaptor for MemoryStick.
I am willing to purchase, if needed, the Olympus SmartMedia/MMS
floppy-adaptor. Tell you the truth, I don't exactly know for sure what
an MMS memorychip is.

what will allow me to make the Dana slots talk to the Sony
MemorySticks(or Olympus SmartMedia chips)?

Also. I've seen desktop-type "drives" which accept 6 different kinds
of memory chips. who makes those?

If the public PCs have paralell ports (or even USB), then you can have
a CF reader for either connection.