Newbie Hardware Questions

[Theo Markettos]

On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Vincent Sanders wrote:

> Heh no that pcmcia connector serves one purpose in life, its from
> previous pace designs which allowed the user to boot the box from an
> alternate flash memory device (pcmcia) style...its not a real pcmcia
> port and I havnt ever seen an actual working design, the pad outlines
> could be useful for summat btw

Hmmm... yesterday I was given an original Acorn NC, which has no onboard
ROMs, but a PCMCIA-like card in the front labelled NC OS 0.1.  I need to
rig up a power supply for the NC to see whether it works, but I wonder
whether it would be possible to boot NCOS on a Bush box...  The hardware
looks similar, except the SuperIO chip in the NC is a UMC something rather
than the usual FDC37C669.

Does anyone know whether this flash card obeys any standard?  ISTR in 1991ish
flash cards in PCMCIA form factor appeared - might this be related?

Theo