PicoPCMCIA Reservation

When the first batch is ready, you’ll be contacted to purchase, defer your reservation to a future batch, or receive a full refund. While the card is intended to be a finished product, the initial batch should be treated as an early run. Any major issues with the card itself will be handled under the warranty terms provided at the time of sale, up to and including a full refund. Edge-case compatibility issues are not considered defects.

I expect to begin shipping in small quantities in about 30 days, with all reservation orders fulfilled within 90 days, barring any unforeseen issues. If timelines change and you’re not comfortable proceeding, your deposit is 100% refundable — no questions asked.

The card’s country of origin is Canada, and it should not be subject to additional tariffs based on origin. North American orders will ship DDP, with duties handled up front. Canadian customers will be responsible for GST/HST. Shipping is expected to be approximately $15 and will be confirmed at checkout.

While this card is designed to work with any compliant PCMCIA socket — including low-power devices like the HP 200LX — behavior can depend on the host device, BIOS, and operating system. Please refer to our Compatibility page for tested systems and known limitations.

At this time, the card is produced as a combined networking and sound card. Earlier in development, the plan was to offer networking with an optional audio add-on, but manufacturing and supply-chain realities made that approach impractical. The good news is that the card is fully flexible in use: networking and audio can be enabled independently. You can use it as a networking-only card with audio disabled, as an audio-only card with networking disabled, or with both functions enabled at the same time. While we explored producing separate networking-only or sound-only variants, there was no meaningful cost savings once manufacturing fragmentation was considered. A single combined design allows for better availability, consistency, and ongoing development.

This is a low-volume, enthusiast product built with several high-cost components and custom parts that aren’t produced any longer. While I’ve worked hard to keep the price down, small production runs don’t benefit from the economies of scale of mainstream products—and the final price is actually below the industry-standard 2× bill-of-materials guideline.

The repository will be made public prior to shipments. Many portions of the code are already publicly available via other products that there has been collaboration with.