22 Apr
2012
22 Apr
'12
6:02 p.m.
On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 12:22:40PM -0700, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Sun, 22 Apr 2012, Chuck Guzis wrote:
It hasn't. It just ... shifted. It disappears from dirt cheap consumer
grade (aka crap grade) but is firmly entrenched in the professional stuff.
Look at any professional DSLR: they use CF cards. And there are still
a fair number of embedded grade x86 mainboard with the CF connector
right on the mainboard.
And there's micro-SD, which almost feels
*too* small...
I'm still having difficulty finding a suitable pillbox container for
carrying half a dozen in my pocket and having difficulty labelling them.
I wish that they were manufactured with a hole through them to string
them.
Compact-Flash seems to have almost disappeared. How long before SD and MicroSD become unobtanium?
I expect that one to be around for quite some time yet, the (micro)SD
cards are pretty ubiquitious these days - from cameras to phones to
embedded systems (the Cubox I aquired recently uses a micro SD card as
internal root disk).
Kind regards,
Alex.
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