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I got this one as a promo piece with a P4 Northwood laptop I bought back in 2001. It was quite useful at the time, being much larger than any other comparable flash drive that was available - a 256MB CF card would have set you back around $110 or so from a reputable dealer.

I don't have anything capable of reading this anymore, so whatever is on it shall remain a secret. A new 512GB flash drive from Microcenter is shown for comparison, and it was $40.

I got this one as a promo piece with a P4 Northwood laptop I bought back in 2001. It was quite useful at the time, being much larger than any other comparable flash drive that was available - a 256MB CF card would have set you back around $110 or so from a reputable dealer. I don't have anything capable of reading this anymore, so whatever is on it shall remain a secret. A new 512GB flash drive from Microcenter is shown for comparison, and it was $40.

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We developed PCMCIA cards around 1990-on in coordination with Fujitsu IIRC at National Semiconductor. It was the hot new thing at the time at my site. There were other semiconductor companies racing to get their versions marketable at the same time.

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It was kind of sad to see it finally die, but I guess things got cheap enough you could integrate almost anything into a system.

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It was exciting at the time. Unfortunately, I was involved in other projects while the PCMCIA development work was in progress, but I was very interested in all of the new tech my department was working on and stayed enlightened at arms length.