Re: FN-FORUM: pcmcia card reader

date posted 1st September 2003 18:51

On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Luke Perman wrote:

> a friend of mine just bought one of them vodafone pcmcia cards to plug
> into his laptop, only to discover his laptop doesn't have a slot!!

You mean a GSM modem card, into which he inserts a SIM from a mobile phone?
Or a CompactFlash/SmartMedia/whatever memory card reader (e.g. for a PDA or
digicam)?

> does anyone know if it is possible to get some kind of card reader type
> thingy that would plug into firewire or some other slot??

The only alternate way (that I'm aware of, at least) of connecting a PCMCIA
card is via a PCI or ISA adapter (which a laptop usually doesn't have).

If he's just after a memory card reader, USB is probably the way to go in
the absence of a PCMCIA slot.

What kind of laptop doesn't come with a PCMCIA slot though?

> cheers!
> luke

Best Regards,
Alex.
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