A Time of Magic

Compact flash was one of the first easily removeable forms of solid-state memory around but it seems to be starting to get a little harder to pick up compact flash in the shops these days.

That’s a bit of a shame really as there are an awful lot of gadgets out there which still use it and which’ll be in use for many years to come. It is still available though although its use is generally aimed at professional markets these days (it’s preferred over SD memory by professional photographers).

Unfortunately, that decrease in availability means that it’s generally more expensive than the equivalent amount of SD memory these days although it is possible to get around that by buying one of the adaptors that let you put an SD card into a compact flash slot (if you can find one of them: they’re quite rare).

And, of course, it’s sad to see the closest analog of Mr Spock’s little memory cards fading into history…

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