17 May
2017
17 May
'17
8:38 p.m.
On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 9:30 PM, ronwirring@safe-mail.net wrote:
Is the pc card's casing this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional-access_module
yyep, that's the one! it's actually PCMCIA - CAM cards are pin-compatible and electronically compatible with PCMCIA then they do this weird flip-over thing... i think. in case you're not aware of it, PCMCIA is actually... get this... it's the old IBM AT/XT bus!! isn't that hilarious? CompactFlash is just an 8-bit version of the same thing, and *both* are *directly* pin-compatible with IDE drives!
which is why you can get a CF-to-2.5in IDE adapter from e.g. hwtools.net. or, i did 10 years ago, anyway.
l.