Some articles on cards, card:
... The equivalent of five slot cards were built-in and integrated into the Apple IIc motherboard ... These included an Extended 80 Column Card, two Apple Super Serial Cards, a Mouse Card, and a floppy drive controller card ... a need for slots, as the most popular peripheral add-on cards were already built-in, ready for devices to be plugged into the rear ports of the machine ...
... A letter card almost has the advantages of a postal card as far as weight and size, but also the advantage of privacy of contents is concerned ... It is a double card, folded over, with gum or adhesive applied to the three open edges ... The gummed strip around the card is then discarded, giving rise to the problems collectors have in finding intact used cards ...
... There are three different types of cards attack cards, rescue cards and block cards ... Attack cards and rescue cards are played when it is your turn ... Block cards, however, can be played at any time ...
... eTopps is a revolutionary type of trading card originally launched by the Topps company in 2000 ... Each week a limited number of sports cards, called IPOs, are offered for sale exclusively through Etopps.com ... contrasts with the traditional sale of sports cards through packs at retail stores ...
... A PCI Mezzanine Card or PMC is a printed circuit board manufactured to the IEEE P1386.1 standard ... of the PCI bus with the mechanical dimensions of the Common Mezzanine Card or CMC format (IEEE 1386 standard) ... and more robust package than standard PCI plug-in cards ...
Famous quotes related to cards:
“Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word ‘sophisticate’ means, very simply, ‘obscene.’ A sophisticated story is a dirty story. Some of that meaning was wafted eastward and got itself mixed up into the present definition. So that a ‘sophisticate’ means: one who dwells in a tower made of a DuPont substitute for ivory and holds a glass of flat champagne in one hand and an album of dirty post cards in the other.”
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)
“But cards are war, in disguise of a sport.”
—Charles Lamb (1775–1834)
“A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs. A Judge may play a little at cards for his own amusement; but he is not to play at marbles, or chuck farthing in the Piazza.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“Men disappoint me so, I disappoint myself so, yet courage, patience, shuffle the cards ...”
—Margaret Fuller (1810–1850)