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Re:A free/open computer on a card that you swap in and out o... by Animats on Friday August 05, 2016 @03:14PM (#12235036)
Maybe they can sell this to F-16 squadrons. The F-16 loads its targeting information from a PCMCIA memory card. They're having trouble getting machines that can still talk to PCMCIA cards.
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Re:A free/open computer on a card that you swap in and out o... by lkcl on Saturday August 13, 2016 @01:59PM (#12282355)
it's not PCMCIA compatible. the connectors and housings are still available - the problem is getting hold of the chipsets. yes there are a few processors around that can do PCMCIA, but they're rapidly going out of production nowadays. you might be able to bodge something together because PCMCIA is effectively just the ISA bus... anyway... digression... :)
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