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		poizan42 on Sept 23, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pcmcia Pico W Card > 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.

jandrese on Sept 24, 2022 [–]

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.

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