It really depends upon the manufacturer of the pcmcia cards. For example I bought a tosheva pcmcia 5 gb microdrive from Pulsedata about a year and a half ago and it was one longish unit about the size of a credit card. The tosheva microdrive which houses the gps maps is a longish rectangle about the size of a credit card. Now I also have an IBM 1 gb microdrive which comes in 2 parts. It can be slid in the rear portion or slot of my Braille Note and used as in a flash card, or put into the other part which is a pcmcia adapter and slid into the side of the unit. Microdrives have moving parts in them, thus they can run your battery down and if left in your machine cause among other things, an automatic hard reset when you turn the machine on. A flash card has no moving parts and if you received your gps with the bn you received a flash card held in an adapter that slid into the side slot. These can be left in the slot and I had mine in that slot for about a year and a half until the Version 2 of the GPS came out. These are like floppy disks and to my knowledge, do not use any battery power. Now you can correct me if I am wrong on this last point. Ok that's it.
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