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My first digital camera used Smartmedia. I had a 32MB card, if memory serves. I could pull pictures off via a serial interface, which was slow and required a pr

• reaperducer 5mo ago
  Putting the reader into a floppy diskette shell and using the disk interface to transfer data is still a pretty cool hack, though. Sony made a Memory Stick adapter like this, too. I imagined that one day someone could back up their computer to a Memory Stick. (Alas, still a dream, as the Transcend JetDrive Lites for MacBook Pros are as unreliable as they are slow. Never put data on a JetDrive Lite that you want to last more than a couple of days because you never know when it might just suddenly stop responding for no reason.)
  • elevation 5mo ago
    > Never put data on a JetDrive Lite that you want to last more than a couple of days Even floppies were like this towards the end. You could buy media at any store, but quality of the magnetic substrate must have been very low. By the time school labs phased them out, best practice was to save your work to two or three diskettes because the deterioration was so quick.
• dan_sbl 5mo ago
  My first MP3 player used it as well. I remember how much this memory card style felt like a 5¼ floppy disk, as opposed to most other formats at the time which were hard shell.