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Written by .:/ DiSCATTe :. 💾 ᓚᘏᗢ on 2024-12-23 at 03:26

Who's ready for PCMCIA mania to hit in 1995?? 📊

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Written by Badscrew on 2024-12-23 at 18:54

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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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Written by Empterdose on 2024-12-24 at 13:24

@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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Written by Marcus Müller on 2024-12-24 at 17:38

@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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Written by Marcus Müller on 2024-12-24 at 17:40

@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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Written by Badscrew on 2024-12-24 at 18:39

@funkylab @MrDOS yeah, now this is true but back in the 90´s there were more desktopsfor sure?

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Written by Marcus Müller on 2024-12-24 at 18:48

@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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Written by Marcus Müller on 2024-12-24 at 18:53

@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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