#pcmcia — Public Fediverse posts

Was ?! Ab Linux 7.1 kein #ISA und #PCMCIA mehr im Kernel. Das haben die aber sehr leise gesagt, Ich hab noch schubladenvoll von dem Zeugs 😢 32 Bit 😢
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-To-Drop-ARCnet-ISA-PCMCIA

Das waren immer die Alleinstellungsmerkmale
* Funktioniert auch mit sehr alter Hardware
* Reboot nach dem Update; nicht bei Linux. Auch vorbei

Took apart the #ToshibaT200 after card services was able to recognize my SanDisk memory card once before returning to "could not read CIS area." Looks like a capacitor burst and got some of the legs of what seems to be the #PCMCIA controller... I cleaned it up as best I could but the legs were corroded very badly and I lost a couple...

Can't find a Toshiba Agnes anywhere... might be worth partial delidding with magnet wire? Maybe someday.

At least it still boots. Here's some SimCity!

PCMCIA driver: CFD 1.41

CFD ("CompactFlashDevice") supports using CompactFlash memory cards on the PCMCIA-Port of an A600 or A1200. Jaroslav Pulchart has created a fork of Torsten Jager’s original driver and released driver version 1.41 two weeks ago.

This release focuses on stability and CPU compatibility improvements across both CPU tiers (68000/68010 and 68020+).

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-05-00001-EN.html

#Amiga #driver #PCMCIA

Amiga tower rebuild: Ms Mad Lemon fixes the last gremlins
#Amiga #Amiga1200 #AmigaTower #CommodoreAmiga #RetroComputing #FloppyDrive #Gotek #IDE #PCMCIA #CompactFlash #IndivisionAGA #CRTMonitor #Aminet #AmigaMods #VintageComputing
https://theoasisbbs.com/amiga-tower-rebuild-ms-mad-lemon-fixes-the-last-gremlins/?fsp_sid=1407

A600 IDE Repair: Chris Edwards Restores an Amiga 600 Motherboard
#Amiga600 #AmigaRepair #RetroComputing #CapacitorReplacement #Soldering #Workbench #Kickstart #PCMCIA #ChrisEdwardsRestoration #VintageComputers
https://theoasisbbs.com/a600-ide-repair-chris-edwards-restores-an-amiga-600-motherboard/?fsp_sid=896

Frankly, I miss PCMCIA, and ZIP drives. Computing that required putting chunky cards and cassettes and stuff into drives. Old 90s anime style computing.

I know some of you know exactly what I mean. Please send GIFs that fit that aesthetic, or pictures of your gear that fits the bill 💜

#retrocomputing #ZipDrive #pcmcia

awww, nostalgia hits so hard 🥰
#ISDN, #PCMCIA, #486er - ich hab direkt flashbacks 🙈 😅
#internet #90s #computer
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyVD-bluwc0

Напечатал пока органайзер для #PCMCIA, ведь у мя их теперь целых две!

https://www.thingiverse.com/make:1227846

#3Dprint

Нас ждут дальнейшие приключения, возможно успешные: приехал адаптер #CompactFlash → #PCMCIA
Жаль, что у #eMate300 только один слот: или #WiFi, или flash 😩
На крайний случай в хозяйстве есть ещё два ноутбука с #PCcard

#newtonPDA #retrocomputing

/* Ugggglllyyyy!!! */

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.13.7/source/drivers/scsi/pcmcia/qlogic_stub.c#L273

#linux #kernel #scsi #pcmcia

*shakes the card at those dang kids passing his house*

You dang kids have no idea how easy you have it with integrated WIFI on your iPad and phones!! In my day we had #PCMCIA cards on our 10lbs laptops!!! (Actually my first WIFI was a PCI card for my desktop.)

I was digging through my tech junk drawer looking for my Pebble charging cable and found this. This thing brings back the memories. I use to do a ton of #wardriving . I never accessed an AP but did scan for them. I legit drove around the twin cities to the point that back in day of 2003, I collected 4,401 AP's with GPS details. Today? That isn't even a 5 mile radius. But in 2003. It was a lot.

Neil Cafferkey has developed a SANA-II-compatible network card driver for PCMCIA cards from the manufacturer Xircom, which can be used with an A600 or A1200:

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2024-12-00139-EN.html

#Amiga #driver #PCMCIA

@scruss No I don't think so, #PCMCIA is pretty-much just the ISA bus broken out into a 68pin connector with some extra stuff. I think #Psion was just mad because their hardware didn't have ISA, and they didn't want to implement it.

#retrocomputing

#psion really, really hated #PCMCIA

There's two whole pages dedicated to hating it in the SDK docs.

PCMCIA is just hype!

#retrocomputing

Oh wow, did the people from #psion hire clairvoyants in 1990! This is exactly what happened with #PCMCIA and the Psion Serial Protocol!

Excerpt from the Psion 'C' Software Development Kit - Volume 1.

#retrocomputing #sibo #pcmcia

When #thrifting the other day I ran across a mysterious PCMCIA card.

There's a no ports on the back of it, and it comes with a faux leather carrying case. What is it?

Put your guesses below, answer in the next post in a spoiler tag!

#retrocomputing #pcmcia #laptop

@derSammler on the right a 3M “FlashDisk" 5MB PCMCIA Type 1 card, circa 1994

On the left, a 170MB PCMCIA Type III "Storage Card" with a physical spinning disk in, circa about the same time. Both used in early model digital cameras, and PCs with that now extinct slot type

#storageCard #pcmcia #flashdisk

Resale shop find. PCMCIA was the USB/plug 'n' play of its day.
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#PCMCIA

One for the #RetroComputing folks who know their way around #PCMCIA and #PCCard: See the different keying mechanisms here? The top one fits my vintage #IBM laptop, the lower one doesn't.

The original standard was defined for both 5 volt and 3.3 volt cards. The 3.3 V cards have a key on the side to protect them from being damaged by being put into a 5 V-only slot.

I've verified that the lower card is a 3.3v card.

Could it be that my laptop only has a 5v slot?