What are PCMCIA / PC Card
PC Card (originally PCMCIA Card) is the form factor of a peripheral interface designed for laptop computers. The PC Card standard (as well as its successor Express Card) was defined and developed by a group of companies called the Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (PCMCIA). The United States
PC Card was originally designed for computer storage expansion, but the existence of a usable general standard for notebook peripherals led to many kinds of devices being made available in this form. Typical devices included network cards, modems and hard disks. The cards were also used in early digital SLR cameras, such as the Kodak DCS 300 series.
Many notebooks in the 1990s came with two type-II slots with no barrier in between (allowing installation of two type-II cards or one, double-sized, type-III card). The PC card port has been superseded by the faster Express Card interface, but some modern portable computers still use them.
