Is there such a thing as a PCMCIA RAM card?

I believe PCMCIA is a memory bus that has been hacked to do other things.
One big problem, though.
Back in 1992, when the slot came out, the memory bus was 16 bits wide, just
like PCMCIA. Now it's more like 64 bits wide.

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I've seen 5G HDrives on a pcmicia card, believe it or not, but havent really
seen RAM yet (which makes much more sense to have in a card than HD's, come
to think of it).

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Is there such a thing as a PCMCIA RAM card? I know once upon a time, back
in Apple II days, you could put RAM on a card and get more that way.
Granted, the PCMCIA thing would be half system bus speed, but it would
likely be much faster than the damn swap file on the HDD, no?

It would me much less than half the speed. Try a hundred times slower then
you get the idea why no one makes them anymore.

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I've seen 5G HDrives on a pcmicia card, believe it or not, but havent
really
seen RAM yet (which makes much more sense to have in a card than HD's,
come
to think of it).

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Is there such a thing as a PCMCIA RAM card? I know once upon a time,
back
in Apple II days, you could put RAM on a card and get more that way.
Granted, the PCMCIA thing would be half system bus speed, but it would
likely be much faster than the damn swap file on the HDD, no?

Yes, they used to exist, but they no longer do, at least not commonly.
Toshiba and IBM both used them in 386/486 days. But the problem is that
a PC Card (the correct term, you should stop using "PCMCIA") is either
an ISA card, or if it's a "Cardbus" card, it's a PCI card. And both are
too slow for main memory in a modern computer.


lid wrote:

Is there such a thing as a PCMCIA RAM card? I know once upon a time, back
in Apple II days, you could put RAM on a card and get more that way.
Granted, the PCMCIA thing would be half system bus speed, but it would
likely be much faster than the damn swap file on the HDD, no?
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