Q: was the card slot in the Poqet "PCMCIA"? ("People Can't Memorize
Computer Industry Acronyms" ("Personal Computer Memory Card Industry
Association", for those who want more formality))
Maybe later ones were, but the first ones were just "card slot" "that
happened to match PCMCIA when that came out
On Tue, 3 Oct 2017, Warner Losh wrote:
PC Cards, defined by the PCMICA standards body, appeared to always be
called that.
The slots in the Poqet predate the PCMCIA specification.
In the original release, Poqet NEVER mentioned "PCMCIA".
It seems likely/obvious? that the Poqet engineers worked from a
pre-release version of the spec, but they scrupulously avoided mentioning
that until after PCMCIA became "official"
They do seem the same as PCMCIA Type1, Rev1/0, other than that the Poqet
calls for cards that can handle lower voltage, and only work with SRAM
and ROM cards. The Poqet can NOT use a PCMCIA modem, SCSI interface, etc.
The one that the CIS department at the college bought came with a ROM card
of Lotus! When the Poqet was sent back to Fry's for repairs soon after,
the Lotus card "disappeared" at Fry's.
