Personal Computer Memory Card International Association

Synonyms:
  • PCMCIA
German: Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
Japanese: PCメモリーカード国際協会

Communications engineering. Standard for expansion cards of laptops. Originally developed for the provision of additional memory location (type I), PCMCIA cards can nowadays also be used for modems and network cards (type II) as well as pluggable hard disks (type III).

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