| Some of the more common devices that will use | | | | humans! |
| memory sticks are digital cameras (where you will | | | | There continued to be a host of new formats |
| often hear a sales rep call it digital camera memory) | | | | throughout the 2000s including SD/MMC, Memory |
| game consoles, mobile phones, and industrial | | | | Stick, xD-Picture Card, and a number of variants and |
| applications. There are also external hard drives that | | | | smaller cards. The never-ending desire for ultra-small |
| look more like memory cards that you may realize. As | | | | and then ultra-smaller still cards for cell-phones, PDAs, |
| technology grows, we all know the rule - size reduces. | | | | and compact digital cameras took us to the smaller |
| You can hear such terms as SDHC memory cards, or | | | | cards that left the previous generation of "compact" |
| M2 memory cards. There's even Micro-SD Memory | | | | cards looking rather gargantuan! |
| Cards. | | | | Things have progressed quite beautifully as well. |
| They all serve a very important purpose which cannot | | | | These days, it is truly hard to find a new PC or printer |
| be overlooked. They keep up digital. They often keep | | | | that doesn't have built-in slots for a variety of memory |
| us mobile. They definitely save space on our desk! | | | | cards. These days you hear such phrases as M2 |
| You may have heard of the PC card (also known as | | | | memory cards, Micro-SD Memory cards, SDHC |
| PCMCIA). These memory cards were among the first | | | | memory cards. And it all means something to the |
| commercial memory card formats. They were | | | | consumer! |
| released in the 1990s, but are now only mainly used in | | | | Now digital cameras and even some PDAs will |
| industrial applications and for I/O jobs. | | | | support more than one memory card to ensure |
| That was followed by the beginning of the memory | | | | compatibility. It is a never-ending world of memory |
| card evolution, and each one smaller than the first PC | | | | cards and memory sticks. You just gotta know that to |
| Card to come out. | | | | be on the go, you'll be wanting devices that uses one |
| And of course we all have heard of the sim card. | | | | or the other. It will be either a memory card or a |
| That's the memory card you see in your cell phone. | | | | memory stick. Just show the sales man what you |
| Now we are talking a size that will impress most | | | | have and he'll help you with the alphabet soup of it all. |