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

15 Jul 2009

I have a couple of PCMCIA cards for my Amiga 600. One is a cool 2MB (notice capital M
& B!), whilst the other is 4Mb (notice small b!). I have never used the latter.

I could never call them PC cards, since I use mine on non-PC's :)

Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk

--- On Wed, 15/7/09, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Do not call them PCMCIA Cards (was "An interesting eBay find  ....)
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
Date: Wednesday, 15 July, 2009, 8:42 PM

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Mr Ian Primus<ian_primus at yahoo.com> wrote:
...
  --- On Wed, 7/15/09, Barry Watzman <Watzman at
neo.rr.com> wrote:
  The correct name for what you are
 [incorrectly] calling a "PCMCIA Card" is a
 "PC Card". 
 And here I always thought that PCMCIA stood for "People Can't Memorize Computer
Industry Acronyms"... 
I was at an Amiga user group meeting when the A600 came out.? Some
younger guy (my age) was talking about PCMCIA cards since the A600 has
a slot, and one of the older members asked him to "speak English" and
"what does all that mean, anyway?"? She pounced on him when he
couldn't regurgitate "Personal Computer Memory Card Industry
Association" on the spot ("how do you expect us to know what you are
talking about when you use words you don't even know what they
mean?!?")

Lots of acronymitis back then.? Still a lot now, but users have had
more time to absorb some of it.

-ethan