Sony PCMCIA Memory Stick(R) Reader

The seller should make it clear that the reader does not work with "PRO" duo memory sticks!

An excellent way to increase a laptop computer memory system. When I ordered this I was down to 51Meg and the card inserted in seconds and increased the online memory to 61Meg. However, I have not located a memory stick to fit this adapter hence the low rating is for lack of support. Other techniques have increased my online memory to 460Megs.

This is an ideal device for small to medium data transfer requirements.I popped it into my XP laptop and the card was recognized, a reboot, and it was done. Now I can pop out the PCMCIA card anytime and transfer it among my other systems.I popped the PCMCIA card into an old Windows NT IBM laptop, and the device was recognized on reboot.Now I can use my memory sticks pretty much anywhere I want.The only complaint I have with the memory stick technology is that it is limited to 128 MB (currently nothing larger in size is available). Compact flash cards are running upwards of 512 MB while the memory stick lags behind.If you are simply managing large media files, then memory sticks should suffice. However if you need anything in excess of 128 MB you may want to consider the Compact Flash memory cards.

I bought this because I have a stash of old memory Sticks and I wanted to be able to use them to play MP3s in my 08 Honda Civic. The 8th Generation Civics with Navigation use a PCMCIA card slot for reading media. The good news is that it plugs right in and it does work really well... the bad news is that it only works really well with the old memory sticks that are 128mb or less. I was really hoping to use my 2 and 4 GB sticks but I found out that they will not work. Fortunately I also had a stack of the old 128mb Memory Sticks too. It's just a pain to constantly have to swap them out. I might as well just use the CDs. I am probably going to bite the bullet and pick up a Compact flash card reader and a good size CF card for my music but until then this does work.

For $.50 ,I really needed it to fill my empty PCMCIA Slot on my Dell laptop.It did a good job filling it but there's no driver to make it work.Overall,I'm very happy with the purchase.

It works great with the older MemoryStick (128Mb or smaller) and no driver is required. Just put the MemoryStick in and it works like a floppy drive.However, it won't work on MemoryStick Pro and MagicGate card.If you want the newer model that compatible with MemoryStick Pro, get Sony MSAC-PC3 Memory Adapter instead.

I have the Sony Memory Stick PC Card Adapter (MSAC-PC3) and it's very unreliable on my mac (powerbook, osx 10.3.8). Most of the time it just doers not work at all. When i insert the memory stick the little red light flickers a bit but then nothing. If I shut my mac down completely, leave it off for a few minutes, then boot it again then the crd reader will sometimes work. All in all not a very satisfactory product for mac users.

I wanted a rewriteable medium that 1) was as easy to use as a floppy disk and 2) could hold as much information (if not more) than a CD-RW (rewritable CD). I found my solution by using this Sony PC Card Adapter for Memory Sticks.This adapter, which fits into my PC card bay (which most laptops have) allows me to insert -- and eject -- a Memory Stick as if it were a floppy disk. (Imagine having a Memory Stick reader built into your laptop, and you'll get the picture.)The Memory Stick is also much more convenient (and quieter) than using a CD-RW (which needs a special drive). And since a Memory Stick can hold up to 128 MB of data, the usable capacity of the device is almost a hundred times that of a normal floppy (which only holds about 1.44 MB of info).With Memory Sticks -- and the adapter -- I can now transfer data, music or digital image files among my PC's, or among my photo printers, PDA's and MP3's which use or accept the Memory Stick format.The adapter is plug-and-play with all of my Windows XP laptops, so installation was a snap. I was also happy to discover that my laptop will ignore the PC Card adapter and Memory Stick during start-up, so I don't need to dis-install the adapter in order to boot up my computer (cool!).Even though Memory Sticks are quite a bit more expensive than floppies, their reusability makes them economical. The computer reads them as just another drive or memory device, so saving or retrieving data is a piece-of-cake. Best of all, with their larger storage capacity, I'm not running out of space as quickly -- as I always did with floppies.I love using Memory Sticks -- and this Sony PC Card adapter (for storing and transferring data). Best of all -- I hope never to have to use another floppy disk again! Hallelujah!