At 8:43 PM -0500 3/22/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>So I was wondering, since PCI cards have the similar functional interface
>to PCMCIA cards, has anyone ever seen a PCMCIA card which gives you a PCI
>slot on an external "dock" of some kind? So you could use a PCI card on
>a Powerbook?
In theory this would be possible, but only with CardBus. Plain
PCMCIA is too slow and limited, and there aren't any off the shelf
chips which provide the necessary bus bridging function. CardBus is
itself essentially PCI, which makes it possible.
However, there aren't any products that I know of. The only PCI
expansion chassis I've ever heard of for PowerBooks was one made by
Magma for the PB G3 Series (the original Wall Street, not the newer
thinner ones). It used the PCI bus available in the media bay rather
than a CardBus slot.
As I recall this expansion chassis cost about $1000, and was about
the same size as a full computer, at which point you're probably
better off just buying a used beige G3 desktop or some similar
computer and using it instead.
Tim Seufert
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