Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 17:23:10 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> Cc: FreeBSD Chat Mailing List <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: NetBSD vs. FreeBSD? Message-ID: <200101072323.f07NNAZ73990@grumpy.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> of "Sun, 07 Jan 2001 20:22:08 %2B0100." <v04220807b67e71c5ef94@[10.0.1.2]>
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Brad Knowles writes: > At 12:00 AM -0600 2001/1/7, David Kelly wrote: > > > The PowerBook doesn't have PCMCIA. But like the G4 tower it has > > Firewire and an Airport slot. Only reason I would have wanted PCMCIA > > was for the compact flash card used in my Kodak DC-290. Then again its > > not really an issue because the USB interface has been satisfactory. > > I'm using a G3 PowerBook now, and it definitely *does* have > PCMCIA. In fact, the "Wall Street" model has two PCMCIA slots (I'm > using one of them for a Lucent WaveLAN card that I use in conjunction > with an Apple AirPort base station). The newer "Bronze" model has > only one PCMCIA slot, but it also has an internal AirPort "slot". That's good to know because in searching the pdf datasheet from Apple specifically for PCMCIA I didn't find anything but the AirPort reference. Then again, I read it, rather than a more accurate "Find..." search. AirPort socket looks awfully similar to PCMCIA. Just harder to get to. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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