On Monday, 29 March 2021 12:13:08 CEST Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
On Monday, March 29, 2021, Felix sucotronic@gmail.com wrote:
Hey Luke, hope you and your and fam are doing well ;) We haven't heard anything from you in a while, and would be great to have an status update or something similar :P
hiya Felix, yes doing well, very busy with LibreSOC tape-out is soon.
Chris received the other 90 of the Cards, for testing before the remaining 900 are done.
We'll certainly look forward to news of how well the testing went. :-)
Meanwhile, browsing old computer magazines, I came across this:
"This may well be the smallest Windows-class PC in the world. The Cardio 386, from S-MOS, is the size of a type 3 PCMCIA card, and is now available in a 486 configuration. The i/o pins are on the long edge, unlike a normal PC card. The cards are designed for embedded applications."
"Smallest ever PC fits on a card" Personal Computer World, July 1995
https://archive.org/details/PersonalComputerWorldMagazine/ PCW%20199507%20July%20Created%20From%20PCW%20Cover%20CD/page/n8/mode/1up
I guess that since PCMCIA cards are effectively credit card size, the PCMCIA connection is tenuous, but perhaps there was some manufacturing capability available for making something similar to a PCMCIA card that led them in that direction.
Paul