I'm always looking for small flash drives around the theater for storing light cue files, sound cue files, etc as backups.
Tore apart our old phone system from 2010 and found two PCMCIA cards. How do I read them? Are they any good for anything?
And yes... I know a 1GB thumb drive is cheap. Trust me, I'm cheaper.
If they're the old laptop-style pcmcia cards... then you'd probably have to scrounge up an older laptop. A 1GB thumb drive is probably cheaper.
Those are basically obsolete junk. I wouldn't bother with them when you can get cheap SD cards or USB flash drives all day long.
PCMCIA cards can be all kinds of devices (modems and ethernet cards were common) but I'm assuming you're talking about a PCMCIA hard drive or flash drive.
There are a few USB to PCMCIA adapters you can buy, but if you don't like the price of small flash storage then you really won't like the price of those...
Haaa. Ok. These are definitely flash. The one apparently held the greeting message and the "press 5 for the costume shop" stuff, and the other one was evidently the storage for voicemail.
Probably not very much storage. I was just wondering if you guys had some brilliant GRM idea for something like "yeah, hook it up to your Miata's ECU and store different ignition curves on it" or "collect 16 of them and make a lightning fast 500mb RAID array"
If they're worthless, I'll toss them.
You could probably sell the old phone system for way more than a few TB of USB flash drives would cost you. I sold an old Nortel system here with some phones and a similar sounding PCMCIA flash based voice mail setup for $500. No idea if yours is worth that but it might be.
Post up pictures of what you've got. They might also find some use in older digital cameras (I use a rather out of date DSLR myself - it doesn't have any more resolution than my cell phone, but the cell phone camera isn't going to have optics in the same league) or on industrial CNC machines. Think of fields where devices are computer controlled but have a longer lifespan.
Here is what I have. Looks like a Nortel Norstar setup. I also have the assorted cabling and interfaces. No idea how many lines it will do but we probably had 6 lines on it.
If that box has phone jacks in it for connecting to an old-school phone system, it could be worth a few hundred, that's specialty hardware. If it doesn't, then any old computer running Asterisk is immediately better, and it's practically worthless.
Do you have any phones with it? The system I sold earlier this year was similar but a bit bigger and had a pile of phones with it. I got $500 plus shipping. That one might fetch more like $300 if you have phones, more like $150 - $200 if you don't. Still would be worth selling. Take closeup pics of the labels on the bigger box (that's called the Key Service Unit, or KSU) and pics of any phones and cables that go to it and list it on eBay with a buy it now and someone will buy it. Make sure to measure it and weigh it and enter those dimensions on eBay so you can get an accurate shipping charge. (Box it with some bubble wrap or bag the parts up and put it in the box with packing peanuts.) It's not "free" money but it's relatively easy money. With that money you could buy any number of USB flash drives. :-)
I think it's called a Nortel Compact ICS. Do a completed item search on eBay, they sell for a few hundred bucks depending on the feature set. Price yours around what the sold items went for that were closest to what you have in total.
The OE Nav system in my 2007 Civic still uses PCMCIA cards. Apparently so do some Mercedes Benz's. You may try putting them on eBay, maybe someone could use them.
I think the retired office lady scrapped the phones except one which we kept for a stage prop. I'll poke around and see what we might have.
Worst case is I put it on ebay and take the highest bid. Anything is more money than I thought we'd get for it.
GameboyRMH said:
Brand new user posting a copy of an old topic....suspicious...
Thanks Gameboy,
New "member" named lupacexi destroyed
That is twice in just this week that I have seen #1 post from "new members" be just a repeat of an old post.
Now that it has been Z-Canoed, what is the outcome?
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