USB Flash Drives and Digital Cameras

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"bbford" <bbford@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> What is the difference between usb flash drives and digital camera memory
> cards?

USB flash drives only have a standard USB connector on them, which can ONLY
be plugged into USB slots on computers. Flash memory for cameras have
connectors which fit in CARD slots...which cameras always have.

Memory cards CAN be used as flash drives, in the sense that they are just as
useful for transferring files, etc., so long as the computer has a card
reader that allows connection of the card.

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Jim Townsend wrote:
> bbford wrote:
>
> > What is the difference between usb flash drives and digital camera memory
> > cards?
>
> The shape.

A classic example of a technically correct but utterly useless reply!
Good job, Jim!

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On 9 Aug 2005 07:50:01 -0700, "salgud" <davegb@safebrowse.com> wrote:

>
>Jim Townsend wrote:
>> bbford wrote:
>>
>> > What is the difference between usb flash drives and digital camera memory
>> > cards?
>>
>> The shape.
>
>A classic example of a technically correct but utterly useless reply!
>Good job, Jim!

Jim works for Microsoft, evidently. :-)

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salgud wrote:
> Jim Townsend wrote:
>
>>bbford wrote:
>>
>>
>>>What is the difference between usb flash drives and digital camera memory
>>>cards?
>>
>>The shape.
>
>
> A classic example of a technically correct but utterly useless reply!
> Good job, Jim!

"Well, as answers go - short, to the point, utterly useless, and totally
consistent with what I've come to expect from a Vorlon"


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<grumpy@mailinator.com> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 23:31:00 -0700, "Mark²" <mjmorgan(lowest even number
> here)@cox..net> wrote:
>
>> USB flash drives only have a standard USB connector on them, which can
>> ONLY
>> be plugged into USB slots on computers. Flash memory for cameras have
>> connectors which fit in CARD slots...which cameras always have.
>>
>> Memory cards CAN be used as flash drives, in the sense that they are just
>> as
>> useful for transferring files, etc., so long as the computer has a card
>> reader that allows connection of the card.
>
> You don't even need a card reader at times. My computer recognises my
> digital cameras as removable
> drives, so I can simply use the camera as a portable hard drive.

Right, except that many people who buy and use flash drives do so because
they don't want anything as large as even a digital camera for carrying
files around. I did see one SD card itself that had a flip-down
portion...which allowed it to plug directly into a USB slot--an interesting
idea.