Compact Flash to PCMCIA Ata Adapter CF to PC Card Adapter PCMCIA Ata Adapter for Cf 2 Card (Come with 512MB CF Memory Card)

I bought this to back up an old laptop with a PCMCIA slot. I could've just removed the hard drive and used a hard drive adapter to USB, but I wanted a way to also extend storage for the laptop, as the hard drive is failing. This product allowed me to back up the drive with ease and no doubt will serve me in the future. So far it has been reliable. It is compatible with Windows 98. Speed is what you would expect from a PCMCIA; the memory card is way faster than PCMCIA, so its speed has no bearing really. Size is compact (as a PCMCIA is).

These are some of my go to tool for transferring files on retro laptops. For the price of an adapter you get a CF Card and adapter. I have had no issues with either the cards or adapters, using them on old Thinkpads and Powerbooks to move files.

Good quality adapter. Have no issues.

Works good!

I needed this to use a digital camera from 1995 (the Minolta RD-175) which doesn't even have a screen nor does it use any kind of modern cards. So I got this to use with CompactFlash cards and it works wonderfully!!

I work in a CNC Machine Shop and some of the Fanuc Controls have PCMCIA slots to store programs and Machine Specific data (Parameters). Some of this data can only be saved to a PCMCIA, not to the USB or RS232 Port. This solved our problem of not having a backup of the critical machine data.

I was glad to see this worked to be able to transfer designs to my Janome 10000 machine without being connected to a computer or old reader box.

As described, new, the right amount of storage and tested good.