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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 08:40:40 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   the image is tiny, but horrible.

   Who wants a CompactFlash to VGA adapter?

   http://salestores.com/colvoyvgapcm.html

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 08:42:34 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     This is for WinCE portables. Some of them had only CF card slots instead of PCMCIA, but CF is a subset of PCMCIA, and you can do non-storage things with it, just not very easily.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 08:44:14 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     this is partially because CF is based on IDE/ATA and PCMCIA.
     and IDE/ATA is based on ISA, as is PCMCIA.

     the PC platform is a turducken of fractal shame

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 08:48:44 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     So apparently the intended use for this was PowerPoint.

     Because yeah, there was Pocket PowerPoint, and you could then use this to make your WinCE portable's display show up on a projector

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 08:52:29 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • kiwa

     they also made a PCMCIA version, which @kiwa
     has:
     https://bitbang.social/@kiwa/111337536646032423

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 08:58:31 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     But yeah. CF can be used for what PCMCIA cards were, so... there were compact flash wifi cards. I own two!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 09:05:14 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • genstar.service

     @Genstar were there ever any ISA 3D accelerators?
     I mean, besides the debatable Professional Graphics Controller

   • genstar.service (genstar@meow.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 09:05:15 JST genstar.service

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     @foone CompactFlash 3D Graphics Accelerator when?

   • Bill Ricker (bricker@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 09:34:27 JST Bill Ricker

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     @foone TinEye finds a larger file of same https://ko.com.ua/img/ko/2002/30/8%21Voyager-ins-copy.jpg

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 09:34:27 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Bill Ricker

     @BRicker thanks!

   • Christen Lofland (ekpyroticfrood@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 09:39:16 JST Christen Lofland

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     @foone I should boot this thing up again sometime

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 09:39:16 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Christen Lofland

     @EkpyroticFrood very nice! ethernet CF, that's a new one

   • vxo (vxo@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 05-Nov-2023 05:01:47 JST vxo

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     @foone I had one of those in an adapter in the early 2000s or so. I remember wardriving with it on the 104 and 88 buses. For whatever reason route 104 was just nothing but hundreds of Linksys routers, factory config, channel 6.