>tfw you'll never slide a PCMCIA card into a PCMCIA slot again
>>54332138
fugg i had that same card when 802.11g first came out.
>>54332138
hated those fucking things, always kept overheating and lose wifi.
why the fuck would i want that again?
i would rather insert the floppy and eject it - was much better feeling then PCMCIA
>>54332138
What the fuck is a PCMCIPIMPA card?
>>54332138
Got an old thinkpad running windows 98 that I've been fucking with, used one of 'em a couple days ago.
>>54332138
>living in a 9th story apartment building and getting free internet from 2002-2004
The feels.
>>54332138
>PCMCIA
>CIA
BANE?
Nigga please. Rebuilt my old battery, now I have an excuse to keep that magical card plugged in. Almost runs Opera like a champ.
That's a CardBus card not a PCMCIA card YOU FUCKING IDIOT
>>54332179
me too
it was pure shit
i used it on my dell latitude cpi
fucking thing would not get detected half the time, i could never figure out what was causing it
>>54332138
That's cardbus, not PCMCIA.
>>54332138
How does one go about making a webm? I kind of want to make one of me vigorously inserting that exact model card into a Thinkpad that I have sitting in my closet.
I still have a laptop that is very usable that has a pci slot in it. running mint 13 on it, but it has built in wifi, so no real need to do that, except to connect to a printer and wifi router at the same time.
Is it at all possible, even theoretically, to get a graphics card or some sort of secondary processing unit for a pci card? i dont care how impractical, or how little of a performance boost, I just want to know if it is possible. Even if it is a really slow GPU, I would still be game for it...
Other than networking, what could use use a pci card for?
>>54332138
>Overheating
>Getting broken when you use it on your lap
>Drains battery like a motherfucker
>Shit signal reception
Nah nigga, I'll keep my modern shit. Even if they are tig welded shut.
that's mini pcmcia (cardbus) silly willy
>tfw you'll never slide an optical disc into a tray again
>>54332138
>tfw you were 13 and had your first laptop
>your dad takes the wifi card from you after 9 pm through early HS so you'll go to bed
The memories
>>54332138
I had that card, used it in an old ass dell laptop that ran Windows 2000.
Good shit.
>>54332138
I don't know this feel
Got one on my 17" MacBook Pro
>never used it
>>54333431
i did the same in 2004-2010.
Here in Europe, 2010 was still year of nearly 20% WEP Wifi networks. Shit was cash
>>54335998
BTW in 2004 found out that my Wifi PCMCIA had antenna connector hidden beneath the plastic. So I drilled a hole in it to connect cantennas..
>>54332138
>implying some of us don't have these pieces of shit on our work machines
>>54332138
Ejecting PC Cards on Apple Powerbooks are an even better feeling.
>>54332138
had a pair of these cards, one for each laptop
worked fine, right up to the point where one snapped and broke (IIRC, it was left in the bag and dropped or some shit? like, it's probably almost been a decade since I've had the cards)
The Sportster PCMCIA card got so hot it burned skin. The dongle seemed so fragile but never broke. That heat though.
>>54332138
Uh, yeah I will.
>>54334713
i did that yesterday.
>>54332138
>tfw just popped an ExpressCard in my laptop
Feels good
>tfw I've got an eMate 300 waiting for some PCMCIA cards
Feels even better
>>54338265
qt as fuck
Nah, man. I even have a PCMCIA slot in my car. Still using it too
>>54332192
Floppy disks feel great man. So god damn tactile. I wish the future had been zip instead of compact.
>>54339448
>>54339527
Wat
>>54332138
>tfw you'll never slide a PCMCIA card into a PCMCIA slot again
TFW when this is you after you just killed your laptop by the fatal last insertion.
>>54334123
Heh. In reality though, everybody was calling them PCMCIA, even after it was all 32bit.
