Using the Portfolio Card Drive
From: Tony Thomas (aa699@cleveland.Freenet.Edu)
Date: 01/07/92-07:02:18 AM Z
From: aa699@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Tony Thomas)
Subject: Using the Portfolio Card Drive
Date: Tue Jan 7 07:02:18 1992
USING THE PORTFOLIO CARD DRIVE
The Portfolio Card Drive for the IBM PC and compatibles can
significantly increase the usefulness of the Portfolio as a
personal or business productivity tool. The Card Drive enables
you to insert Atari Portfolio memory cards and read from them
and write to them just as if they were a disk drive. Cards can
also be formatted quickly and easily through the use of a
special utility that comes with each Card Drive.
Configuring the Card Drive is relatively simple if you are
familiar with your computer hardware and DOS. First, you must
insert a circuit board into a free 8 or 16 bit slot inside your
computer. When doing this, make sure you turn off the computer
and ground yourself by periodically touching your computer's
chassis during the installation process. If you are unfamiliar
with how to install a circuit board, let a knowlegable friend or
your local computer dealer perform the installation.
When installing the circuit board, make sure that it fits snugly
in the slot and the contacts are meshing firmly with the slot
connector. Connect the cord supplied with the cord to the
connector on the board and to the Card Drive.
Next, you have to copy a SYS file to the root directory of your
hard disk and include a line in your CONFIG.SYS file.
(DEVICE=CD.SYS) That's all there is to it. After you have it
set up, check to see that the Card Drive is operating correctly
by accessing the drive with a shell program or with DOS.
If installed properly, the Card Drive should respond just like a
normal disk drive and you should be able to copy files to and
from the Card Drive using DOS commands or a shell program like
those included with DOS 5, PC Tools or Norton Utilities.
You will find that it is much easier to get information in and
out of your Portfolio using the Card Drive. If you work in an
office, you can equip one of your computers there with the Card
Drive and give your secretary or assistant a card with
information to be edited or printed out. The Card Drive is a
timesaver. And in some cases it could be a lifesaver!!
--
aa699@Cleveland.Freenet.EDU/GEnie=A.THOMAS16/Compuserve:71541,3456
TONY THOMAS - SigOp - The Atari Portfolio SIG - Audio Arts SIG
"True riches is not what you have. It is what you ARE." - Tony Thomas
-----------------------------------------
Return to message index
