Background: I have:

1) An ancient IBM 701c (butterfly)laptop
2) A Xircom RealPort Cardbus Ethernet 10/100 card.

The card doesn't fit in the PCMCIA slot because the tab on the left side
is too thick -- specifically the laptop accepts tabs of about 1mm,
but the tab on the Xircom is about 2.5mm thick.

I've searched the web for "PCMCIA" and "form factor" to no avail, but I
suspect that this represents some difference in PCMCIA spec. Voltage?
Pin-houts? Who knows?

SO: what does it mean? Can I simply grind down the tab? Will it work
-- either normally or marginally? Or will there be a mushroom cloud
over my house?

Curious minds want to know!

Thanks,

Greg

Greg Hamblin <gkhmbln (AT) bellsouth (DOT) net> wrote:
Your laptop doesn't support CardBus cards. You can't grind down the
tab. Your slot supports 16-bit cards, the Xircom is a 32-bit card.
It is essentially like trying to squeeze a PCI card into an ISA bus
slot.

-- Dave

Dave:

I suspected something like that, but couldn't find the official word.

Thanks!

Greg