Hi
I have an old laptop with no USB, a ThinkPad 380ED which has 16bit PCMCIA slots. Can anyone suggest where I would get a USB PCMCIA card from? I have searched eBay but even the great online garage sale failed to return anything.
It doesn't have to be USB 2 a simple USB 1.1 card would do but all they have is cardbus cards.
Kind Regards
Simon Royal
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Simon Royal wrote:
Hi
I have an old laptop with no USB, a ThinkPad 380ED which has 16bit PCMCIA slots. Can anyone suggest where I would get a USB PCMCIA card from? I have searched eBay but even the great online garage sale failed to return anything.
It doesn't have to be USB 2 a simple USB 1.1 card would do but all they have is cardbus cards.
Try here:
http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/48669
Ian
On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 10:17 +0100, Ian bell wrote:
Try here:
http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/48669
Ian
Erm, that states Cardbus, it's probably safe to assume that it's not backward compatible with 16bit PCMCIA....It's possible but I doubt it.
This situation gets confused somewhat because PCMCIA is used quite often to describe what in fact is a Cardbus interface Cardbus being a 32bit extension to PCMCIA. All modern notebooks are Cardbus compatible but will also accept PCMCIA (16bit cards), however some earlier notebooks (and Commodore Amiga's) only accept 16bit PCMCIA.
PCMCIA= People Can’t Memorise Computer Industry Acronyms :-)
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