PC card slots!!??

[beavereater]

I have 2 PC card slots...I never knew what these were meant for, or if I could use them for anything interesting....any ideas!??

[Cobra]

Are you talking about PCI slots? About 3-4" long, take internal expansion cards.

If so, how about a digital TV card? You could save the MPEG-2 stream directly to your hard drive and burn it to DVD for watching later. I want one of those, but I don't have the money.

Cobra

[flaninacupboard]

maybe you mean pcmcia slots? how about a wireless network card, external hard drive or compact flash adaptor?

[beavereater]

Are you talking about PCI slots? About 3-4" long, take internal expansion cards.

If so, how about a digital TV card? You could save the MPEG-2 stream directly to your hard drive and burn it to DVD for watching later. I want one of those, but I don't have the money.

Cobra

I think thats it...came with 2 slots....not sure what I can do to make use of them.

[flaninacupboard]

are we on about things that look like this?

[beavereater]

This is the PC...the front where I marked in red opens to reveal usb ports, a headphone input...and the PC card slots...not like the one you have circled...I guess


THis pictures shows the specs...in JAPANESE...simply translated it says PC Card Slot Type blah blah...anyway, can someone tell me what these do!?

[makntraks]

Are you talking about PCI slots? About 3-4" long, take internal expansion cards.

If so, how about a digital TV card? You could save the MPEG-2 stream directly to your hard drive and burn it to DVD for watching later. I want one of those, but I don't have the money.

Cobra

I think thats it...came with 2 slots....not sure what I can do to make use of them.

More likely PCMCIA slots... never have seen an external PCI slot

makntraks

[indolikaa]

PCMCIA Card Slots.

Type I cards are RAM and/or ROM cards,

Type II cards are for things like modems and NICs, but you can also find 5GB hard drives in this configuration also. Type II cards may take up the entire PCMCIA bay even though they only plug into one slot.

Type III cards are big enough for larger hard drives, but they take up both slots (at least the ones I've seen do).

One of the slots is likely a CardBUS slot, a 32-bit, high-speed port that you could use for a PCMCIA video capture device.


They're also used as 'keys' to allow access to your computer. You carry your card with you, and the card plus a password combination allows you access to a given computer.

[sterno]

Just for reference, "PC Card" is the new name for "PCMCIA". PCMCIA is too hard for us dumb consumers to read or say, so the industry decided to rename them.

[flaninacupboard]

sounds logical. coming soon, the Camera Card. CF? SD? MMC? MS? NO! Camera Card. yes, but.........

[indolikaa]

sounds logical. coming soon, the Camera Card. CF? SD? MMC? MS? NO! Camera Card. yes, but.........

Don't forget MD. Why does everybody forget MD?

(IBM MicroDrive. 2.2GB drive that is about 3½ cm x 3½ cm. It's also known as the Postage Stamp Hard Drive...)

[flaninacupboard]

because the MD's i've seen have been in CF format, so the same thing really.