NEC LT155, LT154 user manual Terminology, PC card, ATA card, CompactFlash

Terminology

PC card	This is the name of a card currently being standardized by the Japan Electronic Industry Association (JEIDA) and PCMCIA
	(Personal Computer Memory Card Interface Association) of the United States.
ATA card	A type of PC card. ATA was originally a type of interface between computers and fixed disk devices. The ATA card is a standard
	card-type recording medium.
CompactFlash	CompactFlash card is a small removable card conforming to ATA specifications. It is one-fourth the volume of a PCMCIA card.

TYPE (I, II and III) PCMCIA 2.1 PC cards are divided into three types according to their thickness: Type I (3.3 mm), Type II (5.0 mm) and Type III (10.5 mm).

BMP	A type of image format. The standard Windows Bit Map format used for MS-DOS/Windows-compatible computers.
JPEG	A type of image format. "JPEG" is the abbreviation of Joint Photographic Experts Group. JPEG compression offers efficient
	data storage. The data not required for displaying the image is identified and deleted. Since the data is deleted, JPEG
	algorithms are said to be irreversible. This means that once the image is compressed, the decompressed image it is not the
	same as the original image.

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