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This post - the title made me remember ... ( as a credit card is about the same size as a business card ) A Linux Business Card CD is a miniature, credit-car

This post - the title made me remember ... ( as a credit card is about the same size as a business card ) A Linux Business Card CD is a miniature, credit-card-sized optical disc containing a stripped-down, bootable Linux operating system. They hold around 50MB to 100MB of data and were highly popular in the early-to-mid 2000s More info at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootable_business_card https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootable_business_card

hantusk 5mo ago
yeah, also reminded me of wifi sd-cards: https://hackaday.com/2016/06/30/transcend-wifi-sd-card-is-a-tiny-linux-server/ https://hackaday.com/2016/06/30/transcend-wifi-sd-card-is-a-...
mmmehulll 5mo ago
this is really cool. I didn't know we had these
WillAdams 5mo ago
Or the Rex 6000 or other PCMCIA cards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REX_6000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REX_6000
- NetMageSCW 5mo ago
  I had one of those - I think it is still in my office desk.
devmor 5mo ago
These things were cool! I believe I had some drivers installed via some of them, and a Kubuntu livecd.
dredmorbius 5mo ago
Seth Schoen (<https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=schoen https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=schoen> at HN) was lead dev in building one of the best-known instances of these, the Linuxcare Bootable Business Card (LNX-BBC), and has occasionally commented on that here: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Aschoen%20bootable&sort=byPopularity&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...>
GJim 4mo ago
Business card CD ROM's were a nice idea in the day..... .... trouble was they would often 'misfeed' when using a tray style CD Rom drive and jam in the mechanism, meaning you had to dismantle the drive to get the card out. Understandably, this would quickly piss off people you gave the card to. This helped make the cards rather unpopular. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaped_compact_disc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaped_compact_disc
sukuva 4mo ago
Reminds me more of the smart card with small chip in it - SLE4442 -> https://firmware.buspirate.com/devices/sle4442 https://firmware.buspirate.com/devices/sle4442

hantusk 5mo ago

yeah, also reminded me of wifi sd-cards: https://hackaday.com/2016/06/30/transcend-wifi-sd-card-is-a-tiny-linux-server/ https://hackaday.com/2016/06/30/transcend-wifi-sd-card-is-a-...

mmmehulll 5mo ago

this is really cool. I didn't know we had these

WillAdams 5mo ago

Or the Rex 6000 or other PCMCIA cards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REX_6000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REX_6000

NetMageSCW 5mo ago
I had one of those - I think it is still in my office desk.

devmor 5mo ago

These things were cool! I believe I had some drivers installed via some of them, and a Kubuntu livecd.

dredmorbius 5mo ago

Seth Schoen (<https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=schoen https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=schoen> at HN) was lead dev in building one of the best-known instances of these, the Linuxcare Bootable Business Card (LNX-BBC), and has occasionally commented on that here: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Aschoen%20bootable&sort=byPopularity&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...>

GJim 4mo ago

Business card CD ROM's were a nice idea in the day..... .... trouble was they would often 'misfeed' when using a tray style CD Rom drive and jam in the mechanism, meaning you had to dismantle the drive to get the card out. Understandably, this would quickly piss off people you gave the card to. This helped make the cards rather unpopular. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaped_compact_disc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaped_compact_disc

sukuva 4mo ago

Reminds me more of the smart card with small chip in it - SLE4442 -> https://firmware.buspirate.com/devices/sle4442 https://firmware.buspirate.com/devices/sle4442