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(...) Yeah, this is why having a PCMCIA slot is so nice -- takes like 10 seconds to copy everything off of a 32MB card. Compact flash is cool because it is electronically exactly PCMCIA -- all you need is a cheap physical adapter. (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Compact Flash vs SmartMedia? (Was: Re: Bullet Train)
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Matthew Miller <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote in message news:slrn94uu2t.gi2.....bu.edu... (...) Opinion time: Compact Flash vs. SmartMedia? Which is better and why? I currently own a camera (Olympus Camedia 360-DL or something like that) which uses (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Hmm, SmartMedia is a little slower. I just got a Zio SmartMedia adapter with a USB connector, because USB off the Olympus is not exactly blazing fast (unless you contrast your serial speed...) It took 1 minute to *write* 16mb to the card (Mac (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Hmm, Well my RCA Lyra MP3 player has a 64MB Compact Flash memory card and used to write the entire thing full of mp3 in about 10-20 seconds! (That is if I'm remembering correctly, one of the pins on the reader that attaches to the CF card is (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.publish)
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