Who's ready for PCMCIA mania to hit in 1995?? 📊
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@foo 🤑
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@foo @discatte Somebody was "optimistic"
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@catsalad @foo @discatte If only Itanium development wasn't behind schedule. If only AMD didn't go off and make a 64-bit x86. If only...
If only Intel had partnered with Texas Instruments instead of HP, so they could name it TItanium.
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@DocBohn @catsalad @foo @discatte I'm given to understand that x86 emulation for Itaniums was pretty poor with low performance and compatibility. I suspect they would have had a long, hard uphill battle all the way even if AMD hadn't released AMD-64.
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@DocBohn @catsalad @foo @discatte my understanding is Itanium bet heavily on compilers getting a lot better, and that happened much slower than Intel was hoping
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@chucker @DocBohn @catsalad @foo @discatte It was also the beginning of the rise in gcc on the server, and it seemed like that compiler technology (to the extent it existed) may have been overly IP-encumbered.
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@foo @discatte I'll take wildly wishful thinking, Alex.
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Excellent. We need more. Who have tablet sales forecast? 3d tv screens? Vr headsets ? 😁
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@tuxicoman @foo @discatte To be fair, both tablets as well as VR headsets established in their niche. The rest… not so much.^^
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Tablet was supposed to replace laptops. It's not there.
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@tuxicoman @foo @discatte Will never be, that was just marketing slop. However they now exist in a stable market, that's more than you can say about the other stuff. 😁
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@Natanox @tuxicoman @foo @discatte There are a lot of people in the world with a phone, a tablet, and maybe a bluetooth keyboard.
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@marshray @tuxicoman @foo @discatte Of course there are, however a tablet still can't compete with a full laptop featuring a fully-blown desktop environment for multitasking. Although they could, as proven by Linux Mobile (unfortunately that development ain't there yet, the teams working on that are smaller and those dockable smartphones purely for development and otherwise rather underpowered).
Those half-baked solutions like Samsung Dex just ain't it, given the apps are designed for touch.
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@Natanox @tuxicoman @foo @discatte seems headsets have — so far — fallen far short of what Oculus thought they were going to be
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@foo @discatte @GossiTheDog Whoever picked those shades of blue to color code the year must have much better vision than I do 😂
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@discatte People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms
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@discatte 🤞 expresscard/34 slot coming in the m5
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@vga256 how am I supposed to use my collection of 28.8 3com modems with that!
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@discatte aliexpress and the wizards who make GOBENU HI-CARD 3/4 SUPER has you covered
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@vga256 oh good, my laptop can achieve lift.
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@vga256 @discatte I have never heard of the words “pitcher” and “catcher” used in this way and now I need to learn more about this mythical world of PC card nomenclature
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@kirb 🤣
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@discatte but are they PCMCIA type I, II, III or CardBus?
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@gorplop Type IV or bust.
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@discatte Increasing at a decreasing rate. The background assumption suggesting nobody knows.
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Anyone remembers PCI Wifi cards that were actually made out of PCMCIA stuck on a PCI sized PCB and a bracket?
I wonder if this was an effort to reuse unsold PCMCIA units
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@Badscrew This still happens today with M.2 Wi-Fi cards stuck into PCI-e carrier boards. Even big names do this – e.g., ASUS PCE-AX3000, Gigabyte GC-WBAX2400R. I don't think it's about reusing unsold units as much as desktops having much more space available and cost-optimization being far less of a priority for aftermarket add-in cards.
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@MrDOS @Badscrew some of the high-frequency components really benefit from more costly (per mm²) PCB constructions (more layers, better substrate); making a large "good" PCB for small components is financially unwise, so you rather make a large "cheap" PCB with a carrier for a small "good" PCB.
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@MrDOS @Badscrew (and if you have a well-running production of much higher-volume m.2 cards, why would you run a regular pcie card for each module revision, if you can just have one carrier board for all your wifi products of the next couple years? economies of scale at full force there; the market "desktop PCs in need of a PCIe plug-in Wifi card" is just so niche compared to laptop computers in need of m.2 wireless modules.)
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@funkylab @MrDOS yeah, now this is true but back in the 90´s there were more desktopsfor sure?
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@Badscrew @MrDOS When WLAN was a new thing, basically only laptops had that – the same scaling principle applies: why design, test, and, very restrictive backintheday, getting certifications for a second, lower volume, product if same product + very cheap adapter does the job?
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@Badscrew @MrDOS I mean, who would have had WLAN infrastructure at home? DSL / Cable WLAN routers weren't really that much a thing before 2003, IIRC – and classically, the home PC would have been where the modem / ISDN modem had to be, and that had to be connected to the telephone outlet, anyways.
Different in companies with conference rooms, but for all stationary PCs, an office building would have had an ethernet jack of one sort or other, so pressure to bring wifi to desktops wasn't large.
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@discatte very "my hobby: extrapolating" vibes
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@discatte i LIKED pcmcia! And later, ExpressCard/34.
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@discatte I found a 3com adapter in one of my cable/peripheral hideaways yesterday!
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@mdfranz now you can surf the information superhighway!
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@discatte graph made by this guy I guess?
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@discatte PC Cards my beloved
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@yottatsa I have a little box of all the dongle-less modem cards that were stuffed in various laptops ive purchased over time <3
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@discatte this is the most annoying situation, when you have the card but can’t connect it ^^
(really happy to have an few xjack and dongle-less network cards for all my needs)
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@yottatsa yeah those are so cool!
I even had this problem way back when I first started tinkering with old stylistic tablets decades ago.. ended up rewiring a dongle from one brand to another
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@yottatsa also what lappy is that? looks kinda panasonic-y
havent seen one with speakers right on the hinge.
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@discatte WOW, IMAGINE WHAT THIS WILL BE LIKE BY 2025!!!!
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@discatte Maybe we should start selling Bee Gees albums as PCMCIA cards, to capitalize on both growing trends!!
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@hisham_hm @discatte For sure we should!
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@discatte our company name will be "Dream IT"! Get it?!? guffaws
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@discatte I'm ready when it happens!
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@HaysTechSvcs finally you can read digg on your lunch break!
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@discatte Was this a slide deck for investors in some PCMCIA scam like Nvidia?
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@discatte @catsalad People Can’t Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms
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@discatte
People
Cannot
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Computer
Industry
Acronyms
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@discatte back in the day I thought PCMCIA would supplant other expansion card formats, even on desktop.
My logic was that device manufacturers could make one expansion card for laptops and desktops. I had visions of a small form factor desktop PCs with a whole row of PCMICA slots around back instead of ISA/PCI/whatever.
Alas, I am frequently wrong.
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@linux_mclinuxface yeah I see those pci rear and front bay adapters, woulda been great if they were standard fare!
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@discatte I had a PIII (self-built) tower with front mounted 2 PCMCIA slots circa 1999.
I was clearly the coolest around, but it would have been much cooler with a bank of 8 slots stacked like books on the rear.
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@discatte It is deeply ironic that the way I remember PCMCIA is "People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms".
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My 1989 Sharp Wizard organizer has expansion cards the same size but fewer pins (in different configuration). I'd be excited for more cards for it.
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@elithebearded Those are so fun. Love how the cards have silkscreens for the touchpad overlay.
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Bring back IrDA!
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@RealGene PREACH
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