At 10:28 PM 10/1/00 -0700, Tom L. McCoy wrote:
>Me:>on both the drive and the housing are much different from those found >on
>my desktop drives. There are 52 pins and the connector is very
> >small. One would have a difficult time finding a way to put this into
> >one's desktop machine without a lot of soldering and fussing about.
> >To install it in it's proper place, one simply slips it into the slot, give
> >a firm push, and it quietly clicks into place.
>
>tom: Sounds almost like the PCMCIA cards I use in my HP palmtop, but the
>PCMCIA cards have no exposed circuitry. I haven't counted the pins,
>but I'm pretty certain there's more than 50. These cards are a little
>smaller than a playing card and again about 12 times as thick. Are
>you saying that the cards you have are as thick as a full deck?
Me: no, it is not a pcmcia card, although it is similar in dimension to a
type III PCMCIA card in dimension and function. It is not, however and
removing it hot will wreck the drive (I've proven that too). It is an IDE
device, but specialized for the particular model series of laptop (Versa
40 e)and in fact does not fit later models of NEC versa series laptops.
This laptop also uses PCMCIA and can fit two type I or one type II pcmcia
cards in it's PCMCIA bay on the other side of the body. I currently have a
14.4 modem and a 10/100mbps ethernet NIC in there. The circuitry I
describe is little more than some of the green card with solder points that
bridges the internal connector to the external connector, there isn't any
other circuitry included.
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