by geerlingguy
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- I was able to see the development card in person at VCF Midwest last year; it's a very neat project! The version he had at VCFMW was in a transparent plastic case[1], which looks even better than the IBM-inspired design of the one on this page.
[1] https://youtu.be/hF0NKvmQmVA?t=47 (I couldn't find a good picture elsewhere)
Edit - I found this video on his YouTube channel with more info (with the latest version of the card): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-04EoGlayY
- The RP2XXX microcontrollers are so incredible in terms of what it's opened to hobbyists. I hope microcontroller-based computers become a thing.
- For those who aren't aware what PCMCIA stands for: People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms
- I love this project. It will bring great audio to a bunch of Pentium-era laptops and essentially expand this list: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpd2CM3_384.
Problem with them, for the most part, will be about rebuilding the batteries and dealing with the poor quality of old screens.
by hoistbypetard
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- I love the IBM aesthetic on the card artwork.
- Awesome !!
I have an old Thinkpad and had a similar idea for wifi, but I was thinking about MiniPCI.
Emulating NE2000 is great :)
- A dream device for 486 and pentium laptop enthusiasts. Got in line to get one.
by _whiteCaps_
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- I had a small bugfix in a PCMCIA driver for the Linux kernel, and I was thinking the other day that nobody uses it any more. But I guess they still are!
by systems_glitch
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- And it'll be open sourced once everything is done!
- this looks sick as hell. i wonder whether there are viable NE2000 drivers for PowerBooks running classic Mac OS? modern WiFi (even limited by PCMCIA) might be preferable to era-appropriate WiFi. not much you can get an Orinoco card to talk to these days if you can even find one.
by agentifysh
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- tangent but inspired by this: what about a retro-console development board? like saturn or playstation, would that be hard to do?
obviously this is way over my head, would be great if LLMs can help noobs
- TIL the Newton had a PCMCIA slot!
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