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Portable Computer Cards (PC cards) are interchangeable peripherals designed to be inserted into laptop computers in order to enable extra hardware functions. Such cards include (but are not limited to) flash memory, modems, network interface cards, and SCSI disk controllers. An Acer laptop with touchpad A laptop computer or simply laptop (also notebook computer or notebook) is a small mobile personal computer, usually weighing from one to three kilograms, depending on size, materials and other factors. ...
They were first called PCMCIA cards as the original standards were set by the Personal Computer Memory Card International Association. This awkward initialism was jokingly expanded as "People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms" or "Personal Computer Manufacturers Can't Invent Acronyms". A later revision of the PC card is known as CardBus. The PCMCIA has developed a new notebook peripheral specification called ExpressCard. ExpressCards compared to the predecessor PC Card. ...
The first PC cards (PCMCIA, with the more logical IBM meaning: Peripheral Component Microchannel Interconnect Architecture) were Type I, and supported actual Memory Cards (e.g. Linear or ATA Type I Flash Memory Cards), such as SRAM or flash memories. Type II cards added I/O support in addition to memory applications, and type III expanded functionality. The interface's role as I/O for various devices has largely superseded its role as a Memory Card, but this role did spawn a generation of flash memory cards that set out to improve on the size and features of ATA Type I cards (CompactFlash, MiniCard and SmartMedia). A 32 MB High Speed CompactFlash Type I card A memory card or flash memory card is a solid-state electronic flash memory data storage device used with digital cameras, handheld and laptop computers, telephones, music players, video game consoles, and other electronics. ...
A 64 MB CompactFlash Type I card A 32 MB High Speed CompactFlash Type I card CompactFlash (CF) was originally a type of data storage device, used in portable electronic devices. ...
Miniature Card or MiniCard is a flash memory storage card standard first promoted by Intel Corp. ...
A 32MB SmartMedia flash memory card (on keyboard for scale) A radiograph of SmartMedia card. ...
 Type II and III PC Cards. The Type III is twice the thickness of the Type II. PCMCIA cards were designed by US-industry to compete against the JEIDA cards that the Japanese portable computer industry had established as a standard for memory cards. Later, the two standards merged, and became JEIDA 4.1 or PCMCIA 2.0 in 1991. PCMCIA cards, Type II and Type III. Copyright 2004 David Gerard. ...
PCMCIA cards, Type II and Type III. Copyright 2004 David Gerard. ...
The JEIDA memory card standard was a popular memory card standard at the beginning of memory cards appearing on portable computers. ...
1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Pre-unification PCMCIA cards (version 1.x spec) were only Type-1 cards.
PC card PC cards are PCMCIA 2.0 or later (JEIDA 4.1 or later) 16-bit PCMCIA cards and were introduced in 1993. A PC card is about the size of a credit card. There are three different sizes, varying in thickness: Type I is 3.3 mm thick, Type II is 5.0 mm thick and Type III is 10.5 mm thick. All are 85.6 mm long and 54.0 mm wide. Most notebooks used to come with two Type II slots or one Type III. With the removal of legacy ports, most notebooks now only come with one Type II card slot. This is often acceptable since most Type III cards were normally external hard disks that have since been replaced with USB, FireWire and now Serial ATA solutions, along with flash memory options. Toshiba introduced a 16 mm Type IV card that was never sanctioned by PCMCIA. Memory cards such as ATA Type I flash memory cards continue to be available for the PC Card Type I. 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...
Credit cards An array of various credit cards. ...
Typical hard drives of the mid-1990s. ...
Note: USB may also mean upper sideband in radio. ...
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A USB Flash Memory Device. ...
As the original name suggests, the first PC cards were for memory expansion. However, the existence of a usable general standard for notebook peripherals led to all manner of devices being made available in this form. Typical devices include network cards, modems and hard disks. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...
A 1990s Ethernet network interface card which connects to the motherboard via the now-obsolete ISA bus. ...
A modem (a portmanteau constructed from modulate and demodulate) is a device that modulates an analog carrier signal to encode digital information, and also demodulates such a carrier signal to decode the transmitted information. ...
Typical hard drives of the mid-1990s. ...
The electrical specification for the PC card is also used for CompactFlash, so a PC Card CompactFlash adapter need only be a socket adapter. A 64 MB CompactFlash Type I card A 32 MB High Speed CompactFlash Type I card CompactFlash (CF) was originally a type of data storage device, used in portable electronic devices. ...
A socket generally designates a cavity or region used for fitting and connecting some specific device. ...
The form factor is also used by the Common Interface form of Conditional Access Modules for DVB broadcasts. The slot on a digital television receiver into which a conditional access module (cam) may be inserted. ...
A Conditional Access Module (CAM) is an electronic device, usually incorporating a slot for a smart card, which gives a DVB television or set-top box with the appropriate hardware the facility to decrypt scrambled programmes. ...
Official DVB logo, found on compliant devices DVB, short for Digital Video Broadcasting, is a suite of internationally accepted, open standards for digital television maintained by the DVB Project, an industry consortium with more than 270 members, and published by a Joint Technical Committee (JTC) of European Telecommunications Standards Institute...
CardBus CardBus are PCMCIA 2.1 or later (JEIDA 4.2 or later) 32-bit PCMCIA cards and were introduced in 1995. The original PC Card bus was 16-bit, similar to ISA. CardBus is effectively a 32-bit, 33 MHz PCI bus, in the same physical form as the earlier cards. The notch on the left hand front of the card is slightly shallower on a CardBus card so a 32-bit card cannot be plugged into a slot that can only accept 16-bit cards. Most new slots are compatible with both CardBus and the original 16-bit PC Card devices. 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Industry Standard Architecture (in practice almost always shortened to ISA) is a computer bus standard for IBM compatible computers. ...
32-bit PCI expansion slots on a motherboard 64-bit PCI expansion slots inside a Power Macintosh G4 The Peripheral Component Interconnect standard (in practice almost always shortened to PCI) specifies a computer bus for attaching peripheral devices to a computer motherboard. ...
CardBus includes the bus mastering ability, which allows a controller on the bus to talk to other devices or memory without going through the CPU. Many chipsets are available for both PCI and CardBus cards, such as those that support Wi-Fi. Bus mastering is a feature supported by some bus architectures that enables a controller connected to the bus to communicate directly with other devices on the bus without going through the CPU. Most modern bus architectures, including PCI, support bus mastering because it significantly improves performance. ...
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32-bit PCI expansion slots on a motherboard 64-bit PCI expansion slots inside a Power Macintosh G4 The Peripheral Component Interconnect standard (in practice almost always shortened to PCI) specifies a computer bus for attaching peripheral devices to a computer motherboard. ...
Wi-Fi (also WiFi, Wi-fi, Wifi, or wifi) is a brand originally licensed by the Wi-Fi Alliance to describe the underlying technology of wireless local area networks (WLAN) based on the IEEE 802. ...
See also An information appliance (IA) is any device that can process information, signals, graphics, animation, video and audio; and can exchange such information with another IA device. ...
CompactFlash (CF) was originally a type of data storage device, used in portable electronic devices. ...
A four-megabyte RAM card for the VAX 8600 computer (circa 1986). ...
Typical hard drives of the mid-1990s. ...
ExpressCards compared to the predecessor PC Card. ...
32-bit PCI expansion slots on a motherboard 64-bit PCI expansion slots inside a Power Macintosh G4 The Peripheral Component Interconnect standard (in practice almost always shortened to PCI) specifies a computer bus for attaching peripheral devices to a computer motherboard. ...
The USB trident Icon The USB (Type A and B) Connectors A Male USB plug (Type A) Universal Serial Bus (USB) is a serial bus standard for connecting devices. ...
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