PCMCIA
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Logout wrote  a post about  his semi-vintage HP palmtops  (the Windows
ones) [1] and about the PCMCIA cards for them.

It inspired me to overview my own collection.

The first  such card  was an  Ethernet one.  I got  it for  my Toshiba
Satellite 110CT  laptop. I used it  to install the Slackware  8 to the
device and then to connect it to  the Internet. It was in 2003 or 2004
- both  these devices were already  vintage items (the 110CT  was from
1996 but I  bought it in 2003  as my first laptop and  then wrote over
10000 lines of code on it).

Then I  have got a  Panasonic KXL-D740  portable CD-ROM drive  for the
Toshiba. Its card has been a PCMCIA SCSI card (supported in Linux). So
it has  been my second card.  I still have (and  occasionally use) it.
One day I should test if it works with the OS X...

Then I have got several more PCMCIA cards on various occasions. Most of
them are RAM cards for HP LX  palmtops but there have been some adapter
cards (for the  CompactFlash and the SD  cards), a WiFi card  and a GPS
card. I  also have  a few more  modern CardBus cards:  a 2xUSB  one, an
Ethernet  one and  the FireWire  one. One  of the  adapter cards  was a
actually a adapter for the Belkin CompactFlash card.

These days I use  only the USB one frequently (when I  need to use the
USB on the  PowerBook - one of the  only two of its USBs  is placed so
stupidly so the device connected here blocks external mouse movements.
The PCMCIA slot is placed of the opposite side of the PowerBook...


Written on the Psion Organiser II.


References:

[1] gopher://i-logout.cz/0/phlog/posts/2021-04-18_a_tale_about_jornadas.txt

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