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From: Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com>
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On 4/27/26 00:18, rbowman wrote:
> On 27 Apr 2026 08:43:10 +1000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
> 
>> For over a decade almost everyone running Linux on a laptop would have
>> had a PCMCIA slot.
> 
> Yeah, but that decade was 20 years ago.

	The age of the Pentium single Core computers. PCMCIA to Ethernet and to 
Wireless, and USB.
	Happy it is over.
	
	bliss