Re: 1G or two 512's

Bill Funk wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:00:26 -0000, "Steven Campbell"
> <newsgroup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> It happened to me. Due to them being small and thin I managed to let
>> one slip through my fingers when I was transferring it from my
>> camera to card reader. It dropped from a height of about 2 feet on
>> to wooden flooring. Wiped out the 100 or so pictures I had on it as
>> it was now unreadable both in the camera and in the card reader.
>> Luckily I had backed up the pictures on to my PC and had only lost
>> the last 5 pictures I had taken which happened to be stuff for Ebay
>> which I could easily re do.
>
> Would we be right in assuming this would have been a Microdrive?

indeed...it's very strange if not impossible for normal card to go bad if
dropped ...


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