Is there such a thing as a PCMCIA RAM card?

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Is there such a thing as a PCMCIA RAM card? I know once upon a time, back
in Apple II days, you could put RAM on a card and get more that way.
Granted, the PCMCIA thing would be half system bus speed, but it would
likely be much faster than the damn swap file on the HDD, no?
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[Me]

It would me much less than half the speed. Try a hundred times slower then
you get the idea why no one makes them anymore.

"MrFlash" <themetabaron@nyc.rr.com> wrote in message
news:UJz%a.5604$Sq.1094490@twister.nyc.rr.com... I've seen 5G HDrives on a pcmicia card, believe it or not, but havent
really seen RAM yet (which makes much more sense to have in a card than HD's,
come to think of it). <see.my.sig.4.addr@nowhere.com.invalid> wrote in message news:9sprjv09aig09tilb1p1ttuht6tg2slq5f@4ax.com... Is there such a thing as a PCMCIA RAM card? I know once upon a time,
back in Apple II days, you could put RAM on a card and get more that way. Granted, the PCMCIA thing would be half system bus speed, but it would likely be much faster than the damn swap file on the HDD, no?

[Barry Watzman]

Yes, they used to exist, but they no longer do, at least not commonly.
Toshiba and IBM both used them in 386/486 days. But the problem is that
a PC Card (the correct term, you should stop using "PCMCIA") is either
an ISA card, or if it's a "Cardbus" card, it's a PCI card. And both are
too slow for main memory in a modern computer.


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Is there such a thing as a PCMCIA RAM card? I know once upon a time, back in Apple II days, you could put RAM on a card and get more that way. Granted, the PCMCIA thing would be half system bus speed, but it would likely be much faster than the damn swap file on the HDD, no? -- _____________________________________________________ For email response, or CC, please mailto:see.my.sig.4.addr@bigfoot.com. Yeah, it's really a real address :) .............................................................................. !!! POSTED @ News Paladin !!! Private and Anonymous! VERY FAST- NO DOWNLOAD LIMITS Try us for FREE at www.newspaladin.com ..............................................................................

[Barry Watzman]

The correct terminology is "PC Card", for ALL "PC Cards", both 16-bit
(which have no special name) and 32-Bit (which are "Cardbus" cards).

PCMCIA is the name of the organization that originally developed the
standard back in the 1990's. They begain trying to get people to stop
using the name "PCMCIA" to refer to the cards (EITHER the 16-bit or the
32-bit cards) back around 1995. You can verify at their website
(www.pcmcia.org) that in their veiw, "PCMCIA" should no longer be used
to refer to any "PC Cards", regardless of bus width. It's the name of
the organization, not the cards.


Crispin Bishop wrote:
ER, No it isnt!! A PC Cardbus card (formerly called PCMCIA) is NOT a PCI Card or ISA Card. the PC card originally refered to is a Type I or Type II CardBus card which are usually found on Notebook PC's. Normally with two slots, on the left of the notebook, and are used for things like NIC's, wireless network cards, Bluetooth, USB2 & firewire cards etc etc A Cardbus card is DEFINATELY not a PCI card PCMCIA actually stands for Personal Computer Memory Card International Association and at first they were used for memory expansion. Back in the day, my brand new amiga 600 had one and 1MB & 2MB memory expasions were available. Sadly though they are not used for memory expansion anymore due to Bus speeds and the fact that memory is very cheap at the moment so it would not be cost effective to use for memory expansion as replacing the notebooks system ram with larger "sticks" is so cheap. (And don't tell me that you can't do this, I build & repair notebooks as part of my job!!) "Barry Watzman" <Watzman@neo.rr.com> wrote in message news:v2h0b.113213$ib2.24227153@twister.neo.rr.com...Yes, they used to exist, but they no longer do, at least not commonly.Toshiba and IBM both used them in 386/486 days. But the problem is thata PC Card (the correct term, you should stop using "PCMCIA") is eitheran ISA card, or if it's a "Cardbus" card, it's a PCI card. And both aretoo slow for main memory in a modern computer.see.my.sig.4.addr@nowhere.com.invalid wrote:Is there such a thing as a PCMCIA RAM card? I know once upon a time, backin Apple II days, you could put RAM on a card and get more that way.Granted, the PCMCIA thing would be half system bus speed, but it wouldlikely be much faster than the damn swap file on the HDD, no?--_____________________________________________________For email response, or CC, please mailto:see.my.sig.4.addr@bigfoot.com.Yeah, it's really a real address :) ............................................................................ .. !!! POSTED @ News Paladin !!! Private and Anonymous! VERY FAST- NO DOWNLOAD LIMITS Try us for FREE at www.newspaladin.com ............................................................................ ..