I'm with you on this one. I think I still have that pcmcia card somewhere.
(2017)
The Wombles were some sort of rodents who lived in garbage is that right?
Not sure about rodents, but furry and pointy nosed, and one of them was named Orinoco (they were all named after places or similar). They did not live in garbage, they collected and reused what humans threw away.
Memory is getting too expensive to have multiple heaps.
Soon computers will be too valuable a resource to waste on filthy biologicals at all