What are Any Forums's thoughts on PCMCIANSAFBIABCCBSCNNLGBTQIABBQLMAOWTF+ cards?
What are Any Forums's thoughts on PCMCIANSAFBIABCCBSCNNLGBTQIABBQLMAOWTF+ cards?
SD is all you need.
one luxury PCMCIA to SD adapter for you sir
>SD cards and USB-C
Truly the WD-40 and duct tape of the modern computing era.
not a bad idea if it was a 5.25 bay for a desktop instead. there's only so much you can do with that form factor in a laptop. i put usb 3.0 port card in my thinkpad r400. don't know what else i could do with it.
I used a laptop with a PCMCIA Ethernet card about 20 years ago. It used the flimsiest fucking dongle you've ever seen. It makes Apple shit look well engineered. I broke at least a couple of them every year.
I used to have a PCMCIA Wifi card in the early 2000's.
It was good at the time.
I don't understand why these dongles never used something like the breakaway cables on old Xbox controllers or magsafe connectors. I would be afraid of even touching my laptop with one of these plugged in. It's just asking to be snapped off.
PCM CIA????
The glowiest of adapters.
PC
MAKERS
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INTO
ACRONYMS
Hold on let me click the post button with my PCMCIA mouse.
Not a thing nowadays, due to everything being soldered/integrated, and due to USB/Lightning being enough for almost every external devices.
But in its time, it was a good option for extending capabilities on-demand, i guess.
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I only owned a single laptop that supported them and only used it to add a second Ethernet port, which could just as easily have been done with a USB dongle.
I really wanted them to be a good idea, I'm a sucker for modular bays, but once USB became a thing, those expansion cards only really made sense for stuff like RAM or HDD upgrades, which compared unfavourably with SODIMM and M2 sockets.
I did really want one of these though.
I guess a battery pack might have made sense, but port standards that have to both source and sink nontrivial currents haven't ended well in the past.
I use a USB 3 ExpressCard, but other then that haven't had a need for them
They were more useful during the 90s back when your only other options were serial/parallel ports and bulky-ass docking stations. And for some reason you rarely saw SCSI ports on laptops outside of Apple PowerBooks.
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Looking back, I did use a laptop with a PCMCIA Netgear wireless g card and damn did it seem to get reception anywhere.
It was even mostly alright with picking up a signal when at the neighbors house if you found the right spot.
Modern WIFI seemingly can't compete, although I have a distinct feeling that's more to do with the noise floor having been jacked up an order of magnitude in the last 15 years
I thought this was GameBoy cartrdiges
Imagine my deception
pcm(CIA)
sounds pretty glowie
I vaguely remember using them but Express Cards that came afterwards were the fucking shit. I had a whole collection of cards although now I only have my USB 3.0 adaptor left that sits in my old Latitude. Also got an external PCIe adaptor from chinkexpress that I played around with for a while until it caught fire.
Can't wait until TB unfucks itself.
>It was good at the time.
I remember using a wifi card back then. The hardware seemed pretty good, but the drivers were always a bit dodgy.
>dongles
Peasants.
Pretty based if you like to fuck around with old 90s/early 00s laptops.