But once the PCMCIA cards containing the journal fell into the hands of investigators, they combed its approximately 1,000 pages and found 32 fragments of information -- places, names, activities -- that fell into the category of classified information.
The modem cards fit into the laptop's PCMCIA slot (a standard slot on most PC and Macintosh notebook computers) and have a port for a cell phone.
The PCMCIA Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Notebook card, which is slightly larger than a credit card, slips into any Windows-based notebook's PCMCIA slot.
A mockup shows a laptop's PCMCIA card with a photosensor surrounded by four infrared light-emitting diodes.
This two-button mouse is wafer thin, hardly thicker than a stack of business cards, and stores in the PCMCIA slot found on most notebook computers.
He printed five of them; the sixth appeared to be a personal letter to Anthony Lake, Clinton's choice to replace Deutch, and it "contained Deutch's personal sentiments about senior agency officials," so the officer left it where it was -- on something in Deutch's computer called a PCMCIA card.
And so the wi-fi antenna protruding from the PCMCIA slot on the side of the machine is a matter of real interest.
The MoGo Mouse ($70), sold through Tiger Direct and Gateway, recharges its battery in the PCMCIA slot while the computer is on.
The PCMCIA card is important.
All personal computers purchased by the Defense Department since 1994 are equipped with PCMCIA card slots, which are part of a new, secure Defense Message System.
It was an unsecure habit, for every time Deutch used a PCMCIA card to work on classified documents at home, he was violating security regulations.
