Do not call them PCMCIA Cards (was "An interesting eBay find ....)

15 Jul 2009

...
   I have
personally seen a 16-bit USB PCMCIA card, which are much sought after
 by older Mac laptop owners who do not have CardBus (such as 1400s, 5300s,
 etc.). They are practically unobtanium, but they did exist.  
 Wow.  Long ago, I wanted one of those for an older Dell laptop (before
 that laptop was stolen from me at a hotel).  The vendor FAQ for that
 model (Latitude LM, IIRC) stated that there was *no* way to put USB on
 it since it wasn't part of the mainboard chipset and the machine only
 supported 16-bit cards.

 I had no idea someone _did_ make one.  I'm hardly surprised they are
 extremely difficult to find. 
They were extremely difficult to find even when they were new, for reasons
I did not understand, because there was and is certainly a background
demand for them. IIRC, it was an IBM card, but that's about all I remember
about it (other than my making sure and being told emphatically that it was
indeed a 16-bit card).

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Do not call them PCMCIA Cards (was "An interesting eBay find ....)