Re: [iPAQ] CF Pager Card?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nils Faerber" <nils@kernelconcepts.de>
Subject: Re: [iPAQ] CF Pager Card?

> Cpt_Kirks wrote:
> > With "blackberry" type email pagers so popular now, a 2-way pager CF
card
> > would seem a natural. Has anybody heard of such a thing?
> > I thought Compaq mentioned such a device at one time.
>
> Would be nice ;)
>
> > Also, since the Cypaq expansion sleeve is out now, is anybody working on
a
> > PCMCIA / CF combo sleeve? Would such a sleeve be any smaller than a
Cypaq?
> > Looking at the "Mercury" pictures, it looks like at least one of the
PCMCIA
> > slots is facing down. If a PCMCIA sleeve had a down-facing CF slot,
could
> > the thickness be reduced? it looks like a dual CF sleeve, with one slot
> > facing up and one down, could be made about as small as a regular CF
sleeve.
>
> A 2-CF sleev would be great!
> I almost always have a CF flash card in the CF sleeve and would sometime
> like to use a CF ethernet in parallel.

Yes, a dual CF sleeve would be very nice especially since Z-Com
(http://www.zcom.com.tw/)
has just announced (April 5th) that they have an 802.11 CF package forth
coming
which I gather is based upon Intersil's new Prism 2.5 chipset..
(http://www.intersil.com/pressroom/20010405_ZComFinal_English.asp)

\Terry
Received on Tue Apr 17 10:42:34 2001