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PCMCIA, which stands for Personal Computer Memory Card International Association, is an obsolete standard for credit card-sized expansion cards used primarily in laptop computers in the 1990s and early 2000s. The cards were later renamed PC Cards to simplify the difficult-to-remember acronym. PC Cards were designed to give laptops the ability to add functionality through a small, removable form factor.

A variety of devices were available, including: Memory expansion cards, Modems, Ethernet network cards, Wireless network adapters, External hard drives, and SCSI adapters.

The PCMCIA standard defined three types of cards based on thickness:

Type I: The thinnest cards (3.3 mm), typically used for memory expansion.

Type II: The most common type (5.0 mm), used for I/O devices like modems and network cards.

Type III: The thickest cards (10.5 mm), designed to house miniature hard drives.