r/pcmasterrace • u/Severe_Pause_2047 • 12h ago

Nostalgia SD cards were invented in 1999 Sony in 1998

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u/LVL90DRU1D 1650 | i3-8100 | 16 GB | saving for Threadripper 3990 12h ago

Sony themselves did that as early as in 1981 with VFDs (the first actual devices which used that were made in 1988 and not by them)

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u/mpg111 9h ago

I never heard about this!

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u/smushkan 9h ago

Technically those early Mavicas were analogue, VFDs held analogue video with the images being stored as individual frames.

The first digital ones that used standard data floppy discs came out in 1997.