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- From: easton@zds-oem.mi04.zds.com (Jeff Easton)
- Subject: PCMCIA cards
- Organization: Zenith Data Systems, OEM Systems Engineering
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 02:33:01 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.023301.28125@zds-oem.zds.com>
- Sender: easton@zds-oem.zds.com (Jeff Easton)
- Lines: 31
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- In this weeks PC Week (Nov 9) there are several articles on PCMCIA
- cards.
-
- Pg. 28 has an article entitled "PCMCIA adaptors hold promise but
- face hurdles". It gives a fairly lukewarm description of the
- PCMCIA standard, and how several manufacturers rushed cards to market
- before the standard was finalized.
-
- Pg. 28 and 29 have reviews of the Sundisk memory card, AST modem card,
- D-Link Ethernet card, and IBM's Token Ring card.
-
- Pg. 36 has an article various computer vendors lining up behind the
- PCMCIA standard. It briefly mentions the Intel Exchangable Card
- Architecture (ExCA) and how it is layered on top of the PCMCIA
- standard.
-
- Pg. 177, Another article on the cards. It mentions future type
- III and type IV cards where the thickness is increased to 10mm
- mainly for hard disk cards.
-
- Oh yeah, I almost forgot. Our new laptop is pictured on the front
- page. It has two PCMCIA slots. (not that anybody in this news
- group cares... :-)
-
- Anybody interested in PCMCIA might want to look up this issue.
-
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- ___ ___ Jeff Easton easton@zds-oem.zds.com
- (__ (__ Zenith Data Systems j.easton@mi04.zds.com
- ___) ___) Saint Joseph, Mich. easton@andrews.edu
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