did anyone ever use the pcmcia slot on the a600?
 

just got me thinking i never did and i dont know of anyone who ever did either

Got a 1MB PCMCIA RAM card for mine. Shame that I wanted the RAM upgrade so I could use the 600 as a web server - the network card is PCMCIA too.

It works a treat for PCMCIA networking, as a matter of fact, the A600's PCMCIA port doesn't have that bug the A1200 port has, which needs a software or hardware patch.-

i have 2 pcmcia network cards (i have a laptop) how do i go about installing one to my amiga and networking my amiga to my pc? it would save a shit load of time with hdf and adf files

Got a surf squirrel connected to my A600 via the PCMCIA. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work when I connect SCSI devices to it (no matter what HiSoft ever did claim in the past), but the high speed serial port works a treat, especially in combination with the 030 card.

It isn't possible on a standard A600 - you need an absolute minimum of 2MB RAM to run a TCP/IP stack. 4MB is more realistic if you want to have any memory left over to do anything useful. A standard A600 only has 1MB of RAM.

i have a 1mb upgrade all id be using it for is transfering adfs

Your card must be 16 bits, 5V Type II, and it should appear in the compatibility list of teh CNET or 3Com devbice. Otherwise forget it.

Then again, 2MB will let you do pish all with it. I know I tried, it's not worth it, Miami alone will let you with 200K of memory at the most.

ah screw it then ill just use good old cross dos and a 720k formatted pc disk since i do not have a null modem cable and terminal software

A serial cable is a good way to go. They only cost between £5 and £10. Download "Twin" from the Aminet (http://de.aminet.net) and use that to transfer files - the archive includes both a PC version and an Amiga version.

The PC version works fine with everything up to WinME, but I've never tried to use it with 2K or XP.

Yeah man, crossdos is dumb when you can serial transfer.. no more headaches trying to fit 800KB files in a 720KB disk :P

Personally I used it for connecting the Squirrel SCSI interface and a CD drive, so that I could use the Aminet CDs :).