History (1995) Windows 95 With support for PC Card ATA

Windows 95, announced with tremendous fanfare by Microsoft in August, includes built-in support for PC Card ATA (AT attachment) flash cards.

It is in fact the only plug-and-play card format included in the new OS.

At first, the software giant planned to support the Flash File System, but later apparently changed tactics.

SanDisk (Santa Clara, CA) was evidently the first to hail this decision, since the firm has always supported the ATA standard with which its own cards are compatible.

Of further interest, Sandisk has announced that its line of ATA PC Cards are compatible with the new Macintosh PowerBook 5300 and 190 computers. This marks the first implementation of card slots (either two Type I or II or one Type III) in Apple notebook microcomputers.

This article is an abstract of news published on the former paper version of Computer Data Storage Newsletter on issue 92, published on September 1995.