General Information

Serial #

6CL1A67B02

Part Number

1

Total Parts

3

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

METAL CASING WITH SYNTHETIC & METAL WORKING PARTS, PAPER LABELS

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

8.5 cm

Width

5.5 cm

Height

N/A

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Computing Technology

Category

Digital peripheral devices

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

3COM

Country

United States of America

State/Province

California

City

Santa Clara

Context

Country

Canada

State/Province

Ontario

Period

1995-1996

Canada

AMERICAN MADE COMPUTER COMPONENT USED IN CANADA, AS ELSEWHERE. THIS EXAMPLE WAS USED AT NMST TO CONNECT NOTEBOOK COMPUTER (DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORP. HINOTE CS433) TO MUSEUM'S INTERNALNETWORK. CARD WAS DISCONNENCTED WHEN COMPUTER WAS REMOVED FROM OFFICE; CONTINUOUS CONNECTING & DISCONNECTING DAMAGED FRAIL CONNECTOR.

Function

A SMALL CARD-LIKE DEVICE WHICH IS PLACED IN A DEDICATED SLOT IN A LAPTOP COMPUTER AND WHICH CONNECTS THE COMPUTER TO A LOCAL AREA NETWORK VIA AN ETHERNET CONNECTION VIA A CABLE.

Technical

PCMCIA CARDS WERE DEVELOPED LATE IN 1980S WITH ADVENT OF LAPTOP & NOTEBOOK COMPUTERS & COULD CONTAIN PROCESSING, MEMORY, COMMUNICATIONS & OTHER CIRCUITS. BY 1995 THEY HAD EVOLVED THROUGH 3 TYPES; ALL OF WHICH WERE BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE. PCMCIA ADDED FUNCTIONALITY TO SMALL COMPUTERS WITH SIZE & WEIGHT CONSTRAINTS, LAN CARDS SUCH AS THESE WERE REQUIRED BY PC BASED COMPUTERS. THIS IS EXAMPLE OF TYPE III CARD.

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

BLUE, WHITE, & YELLOW LETTERING ON FRONT LABEL READS IN BLUE, "3Com LOGO/ 3C589C" & "EtherLink III/ LAN PC Card/ For 10BASE-T and/ Coaxial Cable"; BACK LABEL READS IN WHITE "PCMCIA 2.0/2.1 and PC Card Standard Made in the U.S.A." WITH FCC & PATENT INFO. & IN BLACK "EA=00A024A67B02/ SN: 6CL1A67B02/ PN: 16-0020-000 REV. A"

Missing

COMPLETE

Finish

.METALLIC WITH BLACK SYNTHETIC/ BLUE & WHITE LABELS

Decoration

BLUE, WHITE, & GREY DEPICTIONS OF PLANET EARTH ON LABELS