Personal Computer Memory Card International Association definition
<body, hardware, standard> (PCMCIA, or "PC Card") An
international trade association and the standards they have
developed for devicies, such as modems and external hard
disk drives, that can be plugged into notebook computers.
A PCMCIA card is about the size of a credit card.
For some unfathomable reason, around 1995(?) they decided to
rename PCMCIA cards "PC Cards", perhaps to encourage sales to
confused purchasers.
ftp://ftp.sidewinder.com/pub/Portables/PCMCIA.
Address: PCMCIA Administration, 1030 East Duane Avenue, Suite
G, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 USA.
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