Claims
- 1. A communications card for use in connecting a downsized computer to a physical/electrical media connector of a communications system, the communications card comprising:
- (a) an upper surface;
- (b) a lower surface, the lower surface being separated from the upper surface by a distance smaller than the cross-section of the physical/electrical media connector, the electrical components of the communications card being positioned between the upper surface and the lower surface;
- (c) an aperture formed in the communications card, the aperture extending from one of the surfaces into the communications card, the aperture being sized and configured so as to directly receive at least a portion of the physical/electrical media connector to connect the physical/electrical media connector to the communications card; and
- (d) access means for enabling repeated receiving and removal of the at least a portion of the physical/electrical media connector in the aperture from outside the downsized computer when the communications card is housed within the downsized computer.
RELATED APPLICATION
This application is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 08/040,656 filed Mar. 31, 1993, issued on Aug. 16, 1994, as U.S. Pat. No. 5,338,210, entitled "MEDIA CONNECTOR INTERFACE FOR USE WITH A PCMCIA-ARCHITECTURE COMMUNICATION CARD," which is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 07/974,253 filed Nov. 10, 1992, now abandoned, entitled "MEDIA CONNECTOR INTERFACE FOR USE WITH A PCMCIA-ARCHITECTURE COMMUNICATION CARD AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME," which is a divisional of application Ser. No. 07/866,670, filed Apr. 8, 1992, now issued as U.S. Pat. No. 5,183,404, on Feb. 2, 1993, entitled "SYSTEMS FOR CONNECTION OF PHYSICAL/ELECTRICAL MEDIA CONNECTORS TO COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS CARDS."
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Divisions (1)
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