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PC Card

PC Card is a technical standard specifying an expansion card interface for laptops and PDAs. The PCMCIA originally introduced the 16-bit ISA-based PCMCIA Card in 1990, but renamed it to PC Card in March 1995 to avoid confusion with the name of the organization. The CardBus PC Card was introduced as a 32-bit version of the original PC Card, based on the…

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Created by
PCMCIA
External interface
Yes
Hotplugging interface
Yes
No. of devices
1 per slot
Speed
133 MB/s[citation needed]
Style
Parallel

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PC Card

Nodes79
Edges78
Triples115
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.025316
Components1

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PC Card

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related to Further reading · 20
PC Card → Addison-Wesley, AMD, An Introduction, Anderson, Bitsavers, CardBus System Architecture, Don, Flash Memory PC Cards, ISBN, Lock-gray-alt-2, Lock-green, Lock-red-alt-2, Mass, PC, PCMCIA Training Manual, PDF, Reading, Shanley, Tom, Wikisource-logo
related to Others · 15
PC Card → Common Interface, DVB, IC-DRAM Card, JEIDA, MB, P2, Panasonic, PC Card Slot, PC Cards, RAM, Some IBM ThinkPad, The, These, They, While
related to CompactFlash · 11
PC Card → ATA, CompactFlash, For, It, MiniCard, P2 Card, PC Card CompactFlash, PCMCIA-ATA, SmartMedia, The, Type
related to ExpressCard · 11
PC Card → CardBus, Cardbus PCMCIA, Cardbus-to-ExpressCard, ExpressCard, ExpressCard-to-CardBus, From, PCI Express, PCMCIA, The PC Card, These, USB
related to CardBus · 10
PC Card → CardBus, CPU, JEIDA, Many, MHz PCI, Most, PCI, PCMCIA, The, Wi-Fi
related to CardBay · 9
PC Card → CardBay, Drive Bay, IEEE, Intel's, It, Microsoft, PCMCIA, This, USB
related to External links · 8
PC Card → Cardbus, December, March, Official, PC Card Standard Rev, PCMCIA, Understanding PC Card, Wayback Machine
see also · 6
PC Card → Extendable, II PC, Internet, List, Modem, Unidirectional
related to Design · 5
PC Card → CIS, PC, The, The CIS, Type
Created by · 1
PC Card → PCMCIA

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card pc pcmcia cards expresscard cardbus standard devices slots also interface memory original used pci usb slot laptops expansion 32-bit

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
PC CardCreated byPCMCIA1.00infobox
PC CardExternal interfaceYes1.00infobox
PC CardHotplugging interfaceYes1.00infobox
PC CardNo. of devices1 per slot1.00infobox
PC CardSpeed133 MB/s[citation needed]1.00infobox
PC CardStyleParallel1.00infobox
PC CardSuperseded byExpressCard (2003)1.00infobox
PC CardWebsitepc-card.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 1997-12-11)1.00infobox
PC CardWidth in bits16 or 321.00infobox
PC CardYear created19901.00infobox
PC Cardis atechnical standard specifying an expansion card interface for laptops and PDAs0.90text
Dell continued to offer them into 2012 on their ruggedized XFR notebooks.Mercedes-Benz used a PCMCIA card reader in the W221 S-Class for model years 2006instance oftheir original use as storage expansion is no longer common.Some manufacturers0.80text

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