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+ | An acronym meaning Personal Computer Memory Card Industry Association. A standard that allows interchangeability of various computing components on the same connector. The PCMCIA standard is designed to support input/ | ||
+ | Type I cards can be up to 3.3 mm thick, and are used primarily for adding additional ROM or RAM to a computer. | ||
+ | Type II cards can be up to 5.5 mm thick. These cards are often used for NIC, modem and fax modem cards. | ||
+ | Type III cards can be up to 10.5 mm thick, which is sufficiently large for portable disk drives. | ||
+ | As with the cards, PCMCIA slots also come in three sizes: | ||
+ | A Type I slot can hold one Type I card | ||
+ | A Type II slot can hold one Type II card or two Type I cards | ||
+ | A Type III slot can hold one Type III card or a Type I and Type II card. | ||
+ | A full house beats three of a kind! So much for the details. | ||
+ | In general, though there are always exceptions, you can exchange PCMCIA Cards on the fly, without rebooting your computer. For example, you can slip in a Fax modem card when you want to send a fax and then, when you're done, replace the Fax modem card with a memory card. You can also fit (and use) smaller cards into larger slots but not the reverse. They are currently (as of mid-1999) just known as PC Cards. |