First post, by Kurasiu
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- Newbie
Recently I acquired an old Siemens Nixdorf Scenic Mobile 500 notebook, which works like a charm, but features no optical drive (floppy drive only). Figured I might pick up a PCMCIA CD-ROM someday, and had luck, as a local computer shop was selling an old CD-ROM PCMCIA drive for a great price (exactly this one)
I picked it up, ran home and whoops, turns out the it has a PC Card 5V connector, while my Scenic 500 features CardBus 3.3V slots only. Mea culpa, as I should've obviously double-checked the connector, but nevertheless - is there any kind of adapter, which will let me connect a PC Card to a CardBus slot? Or somehow connect the CD-ROM to the parallel port? The CD-ROM features a weird, 26-pin d-sub like connector, never seen one like this:
Can anything be done with it?