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I have, somewhere, one of the old epson calculator/pocket computers that uses those things. I think. I can't instantly lay hands on it, but I've seen the thing around recently, and I'm pretty sure that the cards are the same. That might allow you to write arbitrary data to the card in question.


If it is programmable enough, yes. If you happen to come across it, could you let me know the type of the calculator? That could be helpful information.
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I'm also fairly sure that the cards had a very simple static memory interface, with address, data, control, and power pins from te internal chippery simply brought out to the edge connector. Farnell sell one that looks very very similar, although it has 38 pins and your one seems to have 40. Given the pinout, it would be easy to make an adaptor to allow a PC to connect to one of the things via the parallel port.


Hmm, yes. Was thinking on similar lines... Problem is that my friend only has a couple of memory cards, all with valuable data on them, so we don't want to fry one by accident...