Monday, February 6, 2012

Descendants and variants

The interface has spawned a bearing of beam anamnesis cards that set out to advance on the admeasurement and appearance of Blazon I cards: CompactFlash, MiniCard, P2 Card and SmartMedia. For example, the PC Card electrical blueprint is aswell acclimated for CompactFlash, so a PC Card CompactFlash adapter charge alone be a atrium adapter.

ExpressCard is a after blueprint from the PCMCIA, advised as a backup for PC Card, congenital about the PCI Express and USB 2.0 standards. The PC Card accepted is bankrupt to added development and PCMCIA acerb encourages approaching artefact designs to advance the ExpressCard interface. As of 2007, the majority of laptops now address with alone ExpressCard slots or neither aperture blazon (leaving amplification to USB and Firewire only), for a while some laptops were alien with both CardBus and ExpressCard slots such as the Lenovo Thinkpad T60 and Z60m, the accepted trend (August 2011) is to address laptops with alone USB amplification even fullsize laptops (such as the HP G56-100SA 15.6" Laptop) do not accept centralized amplification slots.

ExpressCard and CardBus sockets are physically and electrically incompatible. Therefore, a simple automated adapter amid the two formats is infeasible.5 However, several companies now aftermath ExpressCard-to-CardBus and Cardbus-to-ExpressCard adapters that use a accessory aperture to acquiesce earlier cards to plan with newer PCs and carnality versa.6

Adapters for PC Cards to Personal Computer ISA slots were accessible as able-bodied as currently there are PC Card (Cardbus) adapters for PCI slots. Wireless (802.11) PCMCIA cards were sometimes awash with PC Card to PCI adapter for desktop use, such as Linksys WPC11 wireless pccard and WDT11 pccard to pci adapter.7

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