OT: The yearly gasp over technology improvements...(changed fromlow traffic)

[dayone]

At 02:00 PM 8/13/2004, Kenneth Brody wrote:

>dayone wrote:
> >
> > At 11:01 AM 8/13/2004, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> >
> > .....snip........
> >
> > >Check out the xD memory cards.  Not much bigger than a penny (and 
> thinner),
> > >and they're going to have 8GB soon.
> >
> > Is this xD card the same as the xD-picture card -- as in my Olympus camera?
>
>Yes.
>
> > what USB device besides the camera does it plug into?
>
>Well, there are USB readers that handle multiple types of media.  (I got
>an xD/SmartMedia combo reader for $15 [free after rebate] at OfficeMax a
>couple of months ago.  There are also readers that take all current memory
>cards, but those are more expensive than "free".)

Camera is an external drive on XP. With camera plugged into USB with its 
cable, I just copied and pasted a .prc file to the xD card in the camera 
and it copied and opens as text file OK.  This means my reader is a premium 
product at just under $400, after rebate.  :-)

If I could hook a Keyboard to the camera using a larger xD card, maybe I 
could run XP and filePro on my camera.

The xD cards seem very expensive or I am buying at wrong store or in the 
wrong department.  In May at Best Buy, I bought a 128Mb Olympus card for 
$49 after a $10 rebate. Maybe Fuji or other xD card is lower?

Charles Day 
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