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Re: PCMCIA joystick adapter?



More of a followup, but what does that mean:
 "supports clock speeds ranging..." (see quote below...)
AFAIK, the clock-speed was relevant back in the earliest days
of PCs, when from XT to AT the clock _and_ the bus speed increased,
and sometine in the later mid-eighties, when overclocking of the
motherboard including the ISA-Bus were common. In the last decade
or so, this must have been irrelevant, since the ISA-bus is hardly
coupled to the CPU. And in the case of a PC-Card (formerly PCMFBI...),
this should be absolutely irrelevant, since the bus-speed of the 
card is way slower than the CPU, anyway... If the AD-converter, which
is basically what the game-port is, could do 200 MHz, wow! - instant
oscilloscope! Decode FM-Radio - watch VHF-TV - read ham-morse-code...

I just _had_ to say that...

Axel

<[snip]
>This PCMCIA (PC Card) adapter lets you connect your joystick up to your 
>laptop! The Game PC Card is compatible with type 2 and 3 PCMCIA slots and 
>supports CPU clock speed ranging from 8 MHz to 200 MHz. It features an
industry-standard 
>15-pin joystick port allowing you to connect any IBM PC compatible controller.
>[snip]

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