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Does anyone else miss PCMCIA? I do! Some Dell laptops used to have these plastic cages around their hard drives, so you could take out a single screw and cold-
by 0xbadcafebee 5y ago
Does anyone else miss PCMCIA? I do!
Some Dell laptops used to have these plastic cages around their hard drives, so you could take out a single screw and cold-swap drives in 10 seconds, no need to open the case. Same to pop in a sound card, ethernet card, USB card, SD card reader, etc. Still my favorite "hacker laptop". Lost it somewhere in Vegas during a bender at DEFCON. Thank goodness for hard drive encryption.
- NathanielK 5y agoIf you're clever, you can usually hotswap that drive too, since it's just a dumb SATA port. More convenient to do with the CD-bay 2.5" drive caddies.