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To: Tumbleweed who wrote (10799)	5/5/2000 8:15:00 AM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Read Replies (1) of 60323

Joe, SanDisk buys certain components from SMDK, and the reverse may also be true. I see little threat from competing floppy disk adaptors for the MemoryStick or SmartMedia cards. My SanDisk Imagemate card reader transfers files from the flash card through the USB port, which in many cases has a faster transfer rate than the floppy disk input in many computers. The floppy disk adaptor that Sony uses may be fine for lower resolution images produced by most of the Sony equipment. A TIFF 2.1 mpixel image takes about 12 seconds to transfer through my USB port. I can imagine it would take about 10 times longer through a floppy disk adaptor. The compact flash physical format is now well accepted. That doesn't mean other formats won't come into use. It's very much like 35 mm film cartridges existing along with other film sizes such as 120 or APS. CF, because of its already wide acceptance, can be thought of as the 35 mm "film" for digital cameras. Art

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