Thanks for the kind words! I have always been fascinated by these tiny expansion cards. Just a dozen or so ISA or PCI cards take up so much space where I can fit 50 or more PCMCIA cards in a small box. I hope to cover some of the cards individually or just a few at a time in a future video. Let me know if there are any that jump out at you as being interesting!
@@RobertsRetro Right, easy to store and cheap to ship :) I'm really curious if the PCMCIA FFDs work well with other laptops, non-Libretto ones. In pure DOS in particular.
OMG! I clicked because of the Poqet PC in the thumbnail and mine needs an LCD replacement and I see the repair you did was exactly that! I'm immediately going to go watch that video and I'll be back later!! :D
Good luck with the repair! I hope there is enough info in the video and description to replicate the replacement ribbon. My biggest tips are, get a bunch of ribbons to practice on, and take your time opening the Poqet. It probably took about 2 hours between taking sanity breaks.
@@RobertsRetro I'm pretty sure my LCD is cracked, so I'm probably still stuck. It's been in storage for about 20 years. 😂 Good to see it's possible to disassemble things. Maybe I'll try to hook up an 8 bit ISA graphics card to that port and run it on an external screen.
@AdamChristensen Dang that's too bad, and I'm actually working on a project to break out the expansion connector to an ISA card. Apparently all the signals are there but if course the Poqet BIOS is unique to say the least!
Pls more PCMCIA cards. I even had the idea to build an "accelerator" PCMCIA card for old notebooks. Basically a Rasperry Pi that runs a docker container, so you can run Firefox etc. Would be interesting.
There's definitely more I'd like to cover, super interested in making my own. There's actually a neat project I've been following from www.youtube.com/@yyzkevin416 where they are using a Raspberry Pi Pico to emulate all sorts of network and sound cards. An accelerator is an interesting idea!
The most interesting card I have is an National Instruments DAQCard. It was included in a laptop I could take home from our lab after we did a big clearout of old hardware
I've seen some HPIB/GPIB cards floating around that look really interesting as well. Though I don't have any of that equipment I still want to collect them all! I wonder if the DAQ Card is some sort of programmable GPIO?
@@RobertsRetro The one I have is a DAQCard-AI-16XE-50. It has 8 digital I/O channels, but I only know their use via the LabView software. Fun fact: the 25 year old LabView scripts that ran with this card can be used on the latest versions of the NI software and hardware requiring only minor (adress) changes!
Haha yeah! What's old is new again, too bad card slots disappeared around the same time as the optical drives. I'd like to find a sensible USB based cardbus controller, but even then I hear Linux and others are dropping mainline support for card services.
Very nice video. Thanks a lot for making it! I'm fascinated by PCMCIA cards and have quite a collection.
Thanks for the kind words! I have always been fascinated by these tiny expansion cards. Just a dozen or so ISA or PCI cards take up so much space where I can fit 50 or more PCMCIA cards in a small box. I hope to cover some of the cards individually or just a few at a time in a future video. Let me know if there are any that jump out at you as being interesting!
@@RobertsRetro Right, easy to store and cheap to ship :)
I'm really curious if the PCMCIA FFDs work well with other laptops, non-Libretto ones. In pure DOS in particular.
OMG! I clicked because of the Poqet PC in the thumbnail and mine needs an LCD replacement and I see the repair you did was exactly that! I'm immediately going to go watch that video and I'll be back later!! :D
Good luck with the repair! I hope there is enough info in the video and description to replicate the replacement ribbon. My biggest tips are, get a bunch of ribbons to practice on, and take your time opening the Poqet. It probably took about 2 hours between taking sanity breaks.
@@RobertsRetro I'm pretty sure my LCD is cracked, so I'm probably still stuck. It's been in storage for about 20 years. 😂 Good to see it's possible to disassemble things. Maybe I'll try to hook up an 8 bit ISA graphics card to that port and run it on an external screen.
@AdamChristensen Dang that's too bad, and I'm actually working on a project to break out the expansion connector to an ISA card. Apparently all the signals are there but if course the Poqet BIOS is unique to say the least!
This is like PC Card heaven
Pls more PCMCIA cards. I even had the idea to build an "accelerator" PCMCIA card for old notebooks. Basically a Rasperry Pi that runs a docker container, so you can run Firefox etc. Would be interesting.
There's definitely more I'd like to cover, super interested in making my own. There's actually a neat project I've been following from www.youtube.com/@yyzkevin416 where they are using a Raspberry Pi Pico to emulate all sorts of network and sound cards. An accelerator is an interesting idea!
The most interesting card I have is an National Instruments DAQCard. It was included in a laptop I could take home from our lab after we did a big clearout of old hardware
I've seen some HPIB/GPIB cards floating around that look really interesting as well. Though I don't have any of that equipment I still want to collect them all! I wonder if the DAQ Card is some sort of programmable GPIO?
@@RobertsRetro The one I have is a DAQCard-AI-16XE-50. It has 8 digital I/O channels, but I only know their use via the LabView software. Fun fact: the 25 year old LabView scripts that ran with this card can be used on the latest versions of the NI software and hardware requiring only minor (adress) changes!
now laptops dont have cd players anymore xD
Haha yeah! What's old is new again, too bad card slots disappeared around the same time as the optical drives. I'd like to find a sensible USB based cardbus controller, but even then I hear Linux and others are dropping mainline support for card services.