User manual

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CH. 2
The CARDIO™ resides on the PC CPU main circuit board in a 236-pin socket. Because the CARDIO™
is socketed, the unit can be easily upgraded.
Figure 2.2
shows an illustration of the CARDIO™.
Figure 2.2 - Epson™ CARDIO™
2.2 Hard Drive/Flash Drive
There are several Hard Drive/Flash Drive options for the PC CPU. The Hard Drive/Flash Drive is
mounted on the PC CPU's secondary board. The Hard Drive is preconfigured at our factory as drive C:
with the Operating System (Windows 95™ or NT™ and MS-DOS™ 6.22 by default) installed.
2.3 PCMCIA Socket
The PC CPU's secondary board includes a PCMCIA socket. "PCMCIA" stands for "Personal Computer
Memory Card International Association". This is an organization which establishes standards for
compact, credit card-sized memory cards for personal computers. The standards established by this
organization have been adopted by several different peripherals and memory cards (Ex: Modems and
Ethernet cards). PCMCIA established four different sizes of sockets; Type I, Type II, Type III, and Type
IV. These socket types vary by the width of cards which they will accept.
The PC CPU PCMCIA socket
is Type II, which supports Type I and Type II cards.