Re: USB to VGA adapter?

From Wear-Hard Mailing list Archive (WH) Maintained by R. Paul McCarty

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:43:32 -0400, "Bryan Hurley"
<> said:
> mainly they don't really exist for general ISA based PCMCIA IRQ/DMA etc
> I/O
> duties. They were made for specific modem cards or for flash based
> readers,
> so a VGA card probably wouldn't work. CF->PCMCIA might work and they
> exist,
> but you lose your storage/usb expansion there.
> 
> -Bryan Hurley

For some reason that seems odd to me. PC Cards, and CF cards are so
common it seems easy to fill up the one or two interal slots, and some
'laptops' like the OQO 01+ don't have any slots at all. And desktops
don't have them either (yeah some have CF readers, but that's for memory
cards only).

At work we had a PCMCIA reader that installed in to a 3.5" drive slot on
the desktop, gave us two PCMCIA slots. We used it with a high end PCMCIA
sound card, and for the controller for a special piece of sound
equipment. But that was back before USB 2.0. I would have thought that
nowadays such as device would have been replaced by USB 2.0.

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Craig

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