The fun days of using the ExpressCard slot to play AAA titles on a beat up Thinkpad or back when EVDO was the new hotness in mobile productivity..

> I always remember PCMCIA as "People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms".

To be fair they did change the name of the standard to PC Card - people just kept using the old name anyways.

PCMCIA was an ISA bus on a card. PC-Card was PCI on a card. Then came Express Card, and no prize for guessing what the bus used there was.

Express Card made the mistake of offering multiple form factors which made it harder for laptop manufacturers to support.

> I've had mixed success with USB Ethernet compared to the old PC-Card Ethernet.

This may change thanks to USB 4 (and Thunderbolt) being able to directly use PCIe lanes.

holy goodness I have not even thought about PCMCIA for like ~30 years!!