On Thu, 9 May 2013, Michael J. Mahon wrote:
That's a good question. I got my first digital camera about 2004, maybe later, it was a hand me down 2.1mp camera. It came with some compactflash cards, and then a sale came along and I got a 256meg CF card. I can't remember the exact year.Jesse <jesse.rehmer@blueworldhosting.com> wrote:On 2013-05-09 18:52:31 +0000, Steve Nickolas said:No, seriously - finding really small CFs is prolly next to impossible > and using an OS that has a 32 MB limit on multigig flashes is...a > horrible waste, not? 1.44 MB is certainly bigger than 140 KB - but > it's not extremely large.-uso.It is? I just bought a 16MB and 32MB CF card from Target in St. Louis MO. I see them at BestBuy all the time and every camera shop in town still has them.Check again--I'll bet they are GB, not MB. ;-)
Then maybe 2009 I got a better digital camera, using SD cards, and the smallest SD card I could buy off the shelf was 1gig. Actually the camera came with a 128meg card, I think considered filler just to get someone going (unlike the first floppy drive and controller that I got, not for the APple II, which came with no floppy disk so I had to go out and spend more money before using the thing).
So my impression is that things moved away from CF cards before they got really desne. ON the other hand, since it's been some time, I'm not sure you can get lower density CF cards off the shelf these days.
Michael