Re: CPU PCMCIA card

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In news:%23FfJexAiFHA.1252@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Steven Wabik <Stevenw45@xxxxxxxxxxx> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

> there is such a thing but they are very rare. they may not make them
> anymore though.
> "Sparda" <UseLinkToEmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:3_1301435_bdfbedc66cc5d9c23e2799779cab7d74@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> "" wrote:
>>> i read some articals and stuff about pcmcia technologies. i
>>> saw that you
>>> could get a CPU PCMCIA card. Can anyone help me find one? my
>>> pc is to old to
>>> upgrade the processor. getting a CPU PCMCIA card seems to be
>>> the only way to
>>> upgrade my pc and make it a lot faster. Can anyone help me
>>> find a CPU PCMCIA
>>> card?
>>>
>>> i would be very thankfull if i found one.
>>
>> A "CPU PCMCIA card" there is no such thing, you find PCMCIA slots on
>> laptops, there basiclt the laptop equivilent of PCI slots, except the
>> range of devices you can atach to them is more limited. You can how
>> ever buy PCMCIA PCI cards, whcih alow you to plug PCMCIA cards into
>> your PC, but i personly think these are pointless as ou can get PCI
>> equivilent of moslty every thing you can find as PCMCIA.
>>
>> --

I'm not sure that it's even possible to add a CPU via a PC Card. I'm pretty
sure it's not gonna happen. If you can find one and show me an image or a
description of one (if it was ever available there will be some evidence of
it online somewhere) I'd be interested in seeing it.

Galen
--

"But there are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world
without them."

Sherlock Holmes


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