http://blog.bfccomputing.com/articles/2008/12/16/where-are-the-1-flash-cards en-us 40 My God, It's Full of Source! <p>It used to be you could get a floppy disk for about a dollar. If you needed to give a colleague a document it was easy to do so with a floppy disk, and there was no point in returning it.</p> <p>Today, it's easy to get a 1GB flash drive/card for $8 or so, but that's a bit beyond the point of just handing them out like candy and far too much capacity for simple document exchange.</p> <p>Moore's Law says we ought to expect 512MB flash cards these days for about a dollar. Something like an SD card would be a perfect replacement for these cases where e-mail isn't the best solution, and surely manufacturing costs are such that a 3.5" floppy disk had a higher materials cost than a SD card, just in terms of plastic and metal.</p> <p>Here's to finding a $10 10-pack of 512MB SD Cards at Staples sometime soon. Next up: very tiny pens to label them.</p> Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:48:00 -0500 urn:uuid:5ea8a68f-5889-40f2-8f78-63eda1f11ed0 Bill McGonigle http://blog.bfccomputing.com/articles/2008/12/16/where-are-the-1-flash-cards Hardware Business http://blog.bfccomputing.com/articles/trackback/4799