Re: [NTLK] USB 2.0 PC Card

On Jun 23, 2009, at 12:22 PM, Dennis B. Swaney wrote:

> I have a Nexxtech NX2 USB2.0 Cardbus PC Card Adapter N2PUCB.
>
> Is there any way to use one of these in a Newton 2100 PC Card slot?

I was under the impression the Newton didn't have Cardbus slots; it
has PCMCIA slots.

The difference? Cardbus is 32 bit; PCMCIA is 16 bit. A Cardbus card
won't seat properly in a PCMCIA slot. (Though it WILL go in if you
shove hard enough, it won't /work/.)

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Received on Tue Jun 23 14:15:08 2009