From: James Nichols (smilr_at_mac.com)
Date: Mon Aug 30 2004 - 22:17:25 PDT
Actually - the old airport cards have the same connectors and shell as
pcmcia cards do (except MAYBE for the notchings at the end), but
purportedly two of the data pins were swapped around from the pc card
standard. Which two pins being a 'closely gaurded secret' of course.
The latter bit about the pin swapping is hearsay, but I've handled
several of the cards themselves, and they are VERY similar to pc cards.
On Monday, August 30, 2004, at 08:32 PM, Brian Pearce wrote:
>> If you bought an apple airport card i rember they used to give you an
>> adapter to put it in an ibook. I think that is why they show an
>> apple ibook. Maby the old ibooks used pcmcia instead of the aipprot
>> standard.
>
> It was the iMac that the adapter was for -- and I think it was to
> physically hold the card in place, not to change the connector. All of
> the AirPort-ready Macs have used a proprietary connector for the
> AirPort Cards.
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