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From: John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: AI Is Killing Some Legacy Hardware Support
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On 27 Apr 2026 18:14:48 GMT
rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

> The only laptop I had with PCMCIA was a 1995 Compaq Concerto that ran
> Win 3.1.  It doesn't have enough harddrive or RAM to run anything
> from this century.

You could still get them at least into the Core 2 era; had a little HP
something-or-other with a PCMCIA slot that I used for file transfer to/
from my Amiga 1200.