6 Jun
2012
6 Jun
'12
11:02 a.m.
On 6 Jun 2012 at 9:59, Fred Cisin wrote:
Wasn't there a camera (Canon?) that used them? Or
was that a
DIFFERENT 2.5"? - there were several competing 2.5" (and a 2.9"
spiral) technologies being shown around that time.
Well, we still have hard-disk Microdrives (e.g. IBM, Seagate, Qrisma)
that fall into that category, even if they're sealed units. 3.25"
floppies were a particularly bad idea--there's no way they'd survive
long carried in a shirt pocket.
All media in that size range should have a hole
through it (center or
corner) to string them together on a key-ring.
MicroSD is indeed too smal in my experience. I have a jar sitting on
my desk here that holds SD and MicroSD (and MMC) chips. Otherwise,
I'd lose them in a drawer.
As far as hanging off a keyring, I've long thought that was a bad
idea, if you actually have keys on the same ring, as well as coins in
the same pocket.
If I look at the keys on my keyring, several have had the nickel
plating abraded off simply from being carried around. I'm on my
fourth or fifth mini tape-measure, others having been chewed up and I
never could get a keyring LED to hold up for more than a couple of
months.
But even for an old guy, I'm pretty active. Office-chair pilots and
couch potatoes may get better mileage from their pocket memory
devices.
--Chuck