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

The correct name for what you are [incorrectly] calling a "PCMCIA Card" is a "PC Card". PCMCIA is the name of the organization that owns the trademarks and they changed the name of the CARDS from "PCMCIA cards" to "PC Cards" more than a decade ago (early 1990's), but people just won't let go. The "MC" in PCMCIA stands for "Memory Card", which was [ALL] that they were when they came into existence, but that hasn't been the primary use of these cards in almost 20 years. And the "A" stands for "Association". Neither is appropriate to the cards themselves as they are used today, and "PCMCIA Card" is not in accord with the organization's registered trademarks [They own both the standard and the trademarks, they get to decide the "right" names for them.] PC Cards come in 3 mechanical form factors [thicknesses]: Type I, II and III PC cards also come in two electrical types (unrelated to type I, II or III]: 16-bit 32-bit (aka "Cardbus") A "Cardbus" card is still a PC Card. Note that, electrically, a 16-bit PC card is the laptop equivalent of an ISA card and a 32-bit (or "Cardbus") PC card is the laptop equivalent of a PCI card. You can put any function onto a PC card that a desktop slot of the corresponding type would have supported (and, conversely, you cannot, for example, create a 16-bit PC card USB adapter with USB ports; the necessary resources and data rates don't exist on the ISA bus, a PCI slot is required). 32-bit PC Card slots are generally backwards compatible to 16-bit cards. The reverse is not true. Laptops (and desktop card slots) changed from 16-bit to 32-bit in approximately 1997, about the time of the Pentium [one] 120 to 166 MHz class CPU. From: Richard <legalize at xmission.com> Subject: Re: An interesting ebay find and what to do with scsi do-dads There's scads of PCMCIA cards out there. Amazon.com has 4 pages of search results for PCMCIA. Firewire, modem, wireless, memory card adapters, etc. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> Legalize Adulthood! <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com>