[1] https://youtu.be/hF0NKvmQmVA?t=47 (I couldn't find a good picture elsewhere)
Edit - I found this video on his YouTube channel with more info (with the latest version of the card): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-04EoGlayY
Problem with them, for the most part, will be about rebuilding the batteries and dealing with the poor quality of old screens.
It was fun being able to expand your computer's IO capabilities by adding on a network card, modem, USB, FireWire, etc. with these modules. It's similar to Framework's little USB-C-based modules, though those modules are just too small for a lot of circuits without a very creative design.
PCMCIA and PC Card = ISA
CardBus = PCI and ISA - slot was backwards compatible so you could use a PC Card in a CardBus slot
ExpressCard = PCIe
>So we know these were originally called PCMCIA cards, then later PC Cards, right? Well, I think I might have found the first mention of PCMCIA in PC Magazine. It is in a Dec 1991 column by Dvorak where he "introduces" the "PCMCIA PC-Card". Here's a quote, "In fact, the card should be referred to as the PCMCIA PC-Card, or the PC-Card for short. PCMCIA is the Personal Computer Computer Memory Card International Association (Sunnyvale, Calif., 408-720-0107), and it's the governing body that has standardized the specifications for this card worldwide. JEIDA works with the PCMCIA; it's specifications are identical."
>So at least according this Dvorak column, these were ALWAYS properly called "PC-Cards" (he used a hyphen), but early on people definitely were calling them PCMCIA cards and I remember the shift to everyone later (much later than this 1991 column) calling them PC Cards.
(Or possibly s/computer/complicated/, that's how I remembered it at least.)
I have an old Thinkpad and had a similar idea for wifi, but I was thinking about MiniPCI.
Emulating NE2000 is great :)
obviously this is way over my head, would be great if LLMs can help noobs