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PC Card: History, Applications & Standards

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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PC Card topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Applications and Standards as prominent areas in the source structure around PC Card.

Related topics
71
Source areas
7
Connected nodes
78
Extracted relationships
115
Concept neighborhoods
30
Bridge connections
78

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

History · 17 topics
Overview · 15 topics
Applications · 12 topics
Descendants and variants · 12 topics
Bus · 8 topics
Form factors · 6 topics
Design · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

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

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Applications

History

Form factors

Bus

Design

Descendants and variants

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How PC Card connects Entity context

The extracted context around PC Card shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, 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 Another extracted example is 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. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

PC Card

Top relations

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

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

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

PC Card relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 115 structured relationships around PC Card. Examples in this analysis include PC Card → Created by → PCMCIA and PC Card → External interface → Yes. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

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

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around PC Card bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Pc, Expresscard and Devices. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • PC Card
    • Pc
    • Expresscard
    • Devices
    • Pcmcia
    • Interface
    • Slot
    • Cards
    • Usb
    • Standard
    • Original
    • Also
    • Slots
  • pc card
    • Pc
    • Pcmcia
    • Expresscard
    • Standard
    • Devices
    • Interface
    • Slot
    • Cards
    • Usb
    • Original
    • Cardbus
    • Also
  • expansion cards
    • Slots
    • Laptops
    • Slot
    • Standard
    • Also
    • Used
    • Memory
    • Pcmcia
    • Pc
    • Adapters
    • Computer
    • Needed
  • network cards
    • Slots
    • Standard
    • Also
    • Used
    • Memory
    • Pcmcia
    • Pc
    • Adapters
    • Computer
    • Needed
    • Interface
    • Slot
  • personal computer memory card international association
    • Pc
    • Pcmcia
    • Many
    • Standard
    • Expresscard
    • Slots
    • Devices
    • External
    • Originally
    • Interface
    • Slot
    • Compactflash
  • jeida memory card
    • Pc
    • Pcmcia
    • Standard
    • Expresscard
    • Interface
    • Slot
    • Devices
    • Cardbus
    • Memory
    • Expansion
    • Usb
    • Laptops
  • memory cards
    • Slots
    • Standard
    • Also
    • Used
    • Memory
    • Pcmcia
    • Pc
    • Adapters
    • Computer
    • Needed
    • Interface
    • Slot
  • credit card
    • Pc
    • Pcmcia
    • Standard
    • Expresscard
    • Interface
    • Slot
    • Devices
    • Cardbus
    • Memory
    • Expansion
    • Usb
    • Laptops

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For PC Card, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects PC Card with History. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
PC Card — History · splits 61 ⟂ 18
PC Card — Overview · splits 63 ⟂ 16
PC Card — Applications · splits 66 ⟂ 13
PC Card — Descendants and variants · splits 66 ⟂ 13
PC Card — Bus · splits 70 ⟂ 9
PC Card — Form factors · splits 72 ⟂ 7

Map overview Semantic statistics

PC Card

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

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around PC Card to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Applications & Standards, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — PC Card · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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