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First post, by TC203

Posted on 2022-02-23, 17:57

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I recently bought an Olivetti Echos 44 laptop from eBay. It works fine, but the previous owner had reinstalled windows (3.11) and hadn't installed the drivers. I particularly need the PCMCIA driver so that I can use my PCMCIA CD-ROM drive. I have looked all over the internet and in the wayback machine, but I can't find anywhere to get them. I was wondering if anybody knows where I can find the drivers. Thanks.

Reply 1 of 4, by Stiletto

Posted on 2022-02-26, 04:25

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Reply 2 of 4, by Horun

Posted on 2022-02-27, 03:47

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Hmm maybe the Cardsoft 3.1 drivers will work to enable the slot. As for your CDrom drive that requires added drivers specific to the pcmcia card and cdrom.
I have a Satellite 110CS (pentium based) and use a Panasonic 4x pcmcia CDROM and works fine with Cardsoft drivers....
Try this: https://archive.org/details/simpletechnology_ … oftv31_cardview

if it not work will image my disk....

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Reply 3 of 4, by TC203

Posted on 2022-03-02, 17:20

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I upgraded it to Windows 95, which already had the correct drivers pre-installed and my CD-ROM drive works fine now! Thanks for the help anyway though.

Reply 4 of 4, by benek

Posted on 2026-05-26, 17:22

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I recently bought one of these myself, and it's as fresh as they come. It looks like it's been owned by the proverbial 'little old lady'.

It's as virgin as they come, running win 3.1/dos6.2 with all original drivers and software , including video and PCMCIA stuff.

The previous owner's files are all still on it, but it's about 2 dozen word perfect documents, so that's about how much it's been used.

I know it's an old topic now, but if you or anyone else needs the PCMCIA or other drivers, then let me know.

Ben

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