Adapters and pricing: look for CF2IDE and SD2IDE, specifically the 40(NOT the 44) pin version.
OK searched for SD2IDE on Ebay. Paid attention to the 40 vs 44 pin thing as you said.
Found one in Germany for 25 Euros shipped. Not exactly cheap :
https://www.ebay.com/itm/304157543256?hash=item46d133cb58:g:jw4AAOSwN4Bgo5GsThen found plenty of ads with what looked like the same product, direct from China for only 10 Euros shipped :
https://www.ebay.com/itm/284558870887That's more like it. At that price I am willing to give it a try...
I am asking myself some questions though...SD cards are slow...at least mine is. Whenever I take a pic with my camera, even though it's a small 2MP one, it takes 2 or 3 seconds for the camera to be responsive again once I take a picture. I assume it's because it's busy writting the file on the SD card at snail pace ?!
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Now is it my card that's dog slow, or is it the camera SD card controller, who knows.
So my two issues would be :
1) What are performances of modern SD cards compared to the old 2.2GB hard drive in this Win95 machine ? Is it really a guaranteed, tremendous improvement, or just "meh, yeah I guess it's a bit faster here and there, if you believe in placebo effect.... ".
2) SD cards these days are very big I assume, many GB of capacity... how is the old BIOS (and Win95 !!! ) going to respond to that ? Will it recognoize the entire capacity of the SD card, will it even detect it at all, will it even work at all ?!
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The BIOS and Win95 must have some limitations, on how big a " Hard drive " they can recognize and use... but how do we know what it is, so we can buy an SD card of the appropriate size ?
3) Can an SD card of that appropriate size, even be bought these days ? Don't know, say the BIOS and Win95 can't work with drives larger than say 8 or 16 or 32GB... can a modern / super fast SD card that "small" still be bought today ?
4) Or is it seamless, you just stick a huge SD card in there and the BIOS / Win95 will just be happy with it and simply use whatever max size they can, and that will work just fine ?!
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5) What are the pros and cons of using a CF drive vs SD ? I have a card reader on my main computer that can read lots of different cards. I only ever used it for its SD card reader because I needed that, but it also has a rather wide slof marked " CF / MD ", so I guess it can read CF drives. However the SC card slot quit working recently, so not sure if the other slots are working or not.... guess I could buy another card reader, can't be that expensive these days...
Questions, questions....