McLaren decided to standardize on a conditional access card for security, which made sense back then, but it used a pcmcia interface. None of these are dealbrea

McLaren decided to standardize on a conditional access card for security, which made sense back then, but it used a pcmcia interface. None of these are dealbreakers but it runs DOS which doesn't have modern drivers for USB adapters or new laptops. I imagine they could fix this in a variety of ways, but probably don't care and the number of old HP laptops compatible with this system vastly dwarf the number of F1's made, so there will never be a worry about not having one. Nor is this laptop customer facing, so its low priority to make it "look good." I also imagine booting up a hypervisor environment and dealing with dongles and adapters might be annoying/too technical/too buggy for the mechanics to have to deal with when they just want to work on a car and have an old but fool-proof laptop with almost no wear and tear ready to go.