Question for laptop users

[mikeymike]

I'm looking for a decent/trustworthy supplier of PCMCIA cards in the UK.  Specifically, I'm looking for a PCMCIA card with USB 2.0 sockets, and Firewire sockets would be an added bonus.

[sir_inferno]

www.ebuyer.co.uk

www.scan.co.uk [click on today only at the top for SUPER SUPER CHEAP thingy's]

those are general computer shop thingy's...

how old's the laptop not to have usb or IEEE1394 ports?  :-?

[Jope]

Sorry for being anal, but those are only found as CardBus cards.

Why does it matter?
- It annoys the heck out of me when I'm specifically looking for PCMCIA stuff, not CardBus stuff, and then 90% of the links that advertise PCMCIA cards are infact CardBus, and not compatible with that old laptop I needed it for.

Thus, I'm on an endless fight against windmills to make people aware of this fact. :-) Just about the only common things with PCMCIA and CardBus are the form factor and physical connector.. (even quite a few signals differ between the two)

http://hardwarebook.net/connector/bus/pcmcia.html
http://hardwarebook.net/connector/bus/cardbus.html

Ok, I'll get off my soapbox now. Sorry for being a pain.

[mikeymike]

I bought the laptop in 2002.  Dell C400, has one USB 1.1 port and one PCMCIA CardBus slot (and one proprietary Dell one that I've looked into getting device connectivity through that - limited and expensive).

It's a nice enough laptop for my needs otherwise.

Scan.co.uk don't have the PCMCIA cards I'm interested in.  I'm inclined against ebuyer after someone else's thread here about them.

[Jope]

Hmm, I guess I should stop my long crusade then, if people don't care what they're speaking about?

Soon I'll probably get SDRAM DIMMs when I buy an EDO SIMM somewhere, since they're both memory modules. :-(

[Stedy]

Mikeymike,

Maplin list a USB 2.0 + Firewire Cardbus adapter for £49.99. The part code is A18AZ.

It has 2x USB 2.0 ports and 2x Firewire ports.

[mikeymike]

Jope wrote:
Hmm, I guess I should stop my long crusade then, if people don't care what they're speaking about?

Que?

[ShadesOfGrey]

It would appear Jope has a pet peeve about people not making the distinction between the old PC Card standard and the CardBus standard.  The thing is that both are endorsed/maintained, and hence often reffered to, by the PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association).