I had for­got­ten all about Smart­Media, the flash stor­age for­mat that pre­dated Com­pact Flash and SD cards. Until I unearthed our first dig­i­tal cam­era, the ancient Olym­pus D-490 ZOOM. Popped a few AA bat­ter­ies in it, and it fired right up. So i gave it to our four-year-old, and he took a bunch of pic­tures, then in the process of not putting it on my desk like i asked him to, he dropped it.

Now I am left with a hunk of metal and plas­tic, four per­fectly good AA bat­ter­ies, and a Smart­Media card with price­less works of art (or twenty-four pic­tures of the floor, I don’t know).

I am pretty sure i don’t have a Smart­Media card reader any­more. The cam­era is too old to have a USB port. It came with a ser­ial port cable. The com­put­ers in the house are too new to have ser­ial ports. New card read­ers are too expen­sive to use just this once (since the cam­era is toast).

So any­one got a Smart­Media card reader they don’t need? Or know where I can get bor­row one? Thanks.

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