1993: Expansion cards

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kevm14
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1993: Expansion cards

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Including PCMCIA. And cellular modems (tethering if you will). And PCI! Not the first 32-bit bus (MCA was first, then VESA, an extension to ISA) but it certainly became a standard. In fact, we still have PCI in various forms where the bandwidth requirements just don't dictate even PCI Express x1. Plug and play also really became en vogue around this time. Previously adding a sound card (and configuring it to avoid hardware resource conflicts) was a bit of a chore. Also, these were the days when computer games had to support individual sound card hardware, and you'd even have to tell it what the address was of your card. Fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTjE25F ... Bla4JgKj3A

Pentium!

And another GPS demo. Much more modern and inline with current capabilities and convenience.
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