[sdiy] Yamaha GS/CS card reader?

[Senso]

That sounds good - except for the word "uncompleted".

Senso

>   One of my uncompleted projects is a GS-1 ROM library made up by using my
>GS-1 reader to load voices into some DS1220 non-volatile RAMs, transplant
>the RAMs into my programmer, then store the voice sets as .bin files.  I
>got as far as installing DS1220s into the controller board but due to the
>very strange power supplies of the GS-1, the DS1220s won't enable.  I need
>to power them from a supply that provides about 0.5V more (negative) than
>what the RW board provides.
>
>   Anyway, with the voices thus turned into useful files, they can be put
>into ROM alongside enough microconroller code to emulate the card reader
>I/O.
>
>Crow
>/**/
>
>On Fri, 27 May 2005, Tim Parkhurst wrote:
>
>>  I think the CS-40m used the same funky little mag card reader.
>>  Unfortunately, both the CS-40m and the CS-70m are about as common as hen's
>>  teeth. Perhaps a modern magnetic 'credit card' reader could be adapted to
>>  read and write the GS-2 cards? There's a great magazine out (just had its


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