[torginus]

Do people not remember that these things existed?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_Card

You could get standardised addons for laptops, but I guess they disappeared due to lack of interest/better alternatives.

It's weird how the world goes around in circles.

[wmf]

The only things 99% of people used PCMCIA for were networking (modems, Ethernet, or Wi-Fi) and once that got built in people didn't really need slots. The long tail of I/O is now handled by USB/Thunderbolt dongles.

[mixmastamyk]

I had those, but think framework’s design with a flat face for the port is a better design. For example one of my cards was the xylink? ether card with full-size port was the most useful. Looked like this: https://eu.dlink.com/pl/pl/-/media/product-pages/dfe/670txd/...