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Posted at 4:59 PM on Monday 04/30/07 by
Ben
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Acortech.com has this PCMCIA to PCI Converter Card for $18 with free shipping. Use it to use a notebook PCMCIA card with your PC. It supports hot swapping of cards, and 32-bit (CardBus) PC cards.
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    Philster - Posted 6:44 pm PDT 04/30/07 (802 Posts)  Report Spam

    Hot swapping? That's got to be fun, considering that this has to be in PCI slot.

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    BenThere - Posted 6:56 pm PDT 04/30/07 (129 Posts)  Report Spam

    Hot swapping of PCMCIA cards, #1...

    Now someone can fill in the obvious wife swapping jokes.

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    Spoon - Posted 7:00 pm PDT 04/30/07 (40 Posts)  Report Spam

    Too bad going the other way is so much $$$

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    Philster - Posted 8:08 pm PDT 04/30/07 (802 Posts)  Report Spam

    My point #2 is that this has to be in a PCI slot to work. Thus it must be, at best, awkward to remove and plug in a different PCMCIA card into it (like those damn USB slots at the bottom of a machine). Unless the back bottom of your machine is easily accessable, you get to go spagetti dust diving.

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    stephen - Posted 12:15 am PDT 05/1/07 (191 Posts)  Report Spam

    I read it and thought oh sweet pci cards for my laptop now I can install that sound card

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    AKM - Posted 6:38 am PDT 05/1/07 (313 Posts)  Report Spam

    Yeah, they oughta have this thing with a 3.5" drive bay adapter, and have the PCMCIA card slot in the front of the PC.

    This would really be helpful if you lived in the boonies and were forced to use something like Sprint Broadband, where they give you a PCMCIA adapter, but you want to use it with your desktop. But I agree, the back of the computer usually isn't all that easy to get to.

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