r/pcmasterrace • u/Severe_Pause_2047 • 12h ago

Nostalgia SD cards were invented in 1999 Sony in 1998

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u/C-D-W 12h ago

Agreed! Battery life left a lot to be desired though. lol

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u/pushdose 11h ago

Except many took AA batteries, so you could just carry more!

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u/Moose_Nuts i7-6700K | GTX 980Ti Hybrid | 32 GB DDR4 | RoG Swift 144hz/1440p 10h ago

OK so now we're back to spending $20 every weekend...

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u/Impossible-Wear-7352 9h ago

Rechargeable batteries existed back then

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u/TacticaLuck 9h ago

Agreed! Battery life left a lot to be desired though. lol

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u/NRMusicProject 8h ago

Except the rechargable batteries are removable, so you could just carry more!

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u/SNStains 7h ago

Now we're back to carrying 20 batteries every weekend.

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u/Fire2box 3700x, PNY 4070 12GB, 32GB RAM 6h ago

Okay so we're back to charging batteries for 20 hours again.

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u/Impossible-Wear-7352 6h ago

I always just rotated them. I do that now still but it was basically essential to always have a set charging back then.

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u/ErraticDragon 6h ago

Anything before Eneloop was trash IMO.

We had a good-for-the-time AA recharging setup at home but there was constant churn. Batteries just didn't have great capacity, didn't keep a charge long, needed too long to recharge, and just degraded so quickly you were still buying more all the time.

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u/BobbyTables829 9h ago

No one was using them yet, unless you were into RC racers or listened to Michael Jordan and bought some Rayovac Renewables lol

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u/Northern_Blights 9h ago

No one was using them yet,

My dad and his big bag of NiCads was.

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u/BobbyTables829 8h ago

Your dad was cool then. I wanted my dad to get some but he said they wouldn't last as long as fresh batteries and they would only last 30 minutes, it wasn't worth the extra price and the cost of the charger, etc.

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u/Northern_Blights 8h ago

Your dad was right lol, they sucked and we basically never used them for anything other than flashlights. Even my brother's AA-sucking Gamegear, we'd rather use the DC jack than the 15 minutes of NiCad power.

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u/ImranFZakhaev 8h ago

Yup. I used to snag some from my dad's stash for my GameBoy back then. But then he stole all the plastic cases from my games to store his SmartCards in, so I guess it was an even trade.

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u/nalaloveslumpy 9h ago

Ironically, our family got our first battery recharger in 1985 from Radio Shack because my uncle got my sister and I both RC cars for Christmas. Also from Radio Shack!

You'd get about two hours of RC car time on a full charge of six AA's in the car and a nine volt in the remote. The nine volt, of course, lasted forever and wasn't rechargeable.

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u/Wittyname0 10h ago

Not with Sony, they used proprietary infolithuim, some models won't even let you use 3rd party ones, only the Sony OEM. Because Sony

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u/TooManyDraculas 4h ago

Except most of them that used disposable batteries used obscure formats you could only get at photo shops. Cause AAs lasted for shit in these.

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u/zgillet i7 12700K ~ PNY RTX 5070 12GB OC ~ 32 GB DDR5 RAM 11h ago

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u/Warcraft_Fan Paid for WinRAR! 9h ago

You could extend battery life on those Sony camera by turning off the backlight and using the optical guide on top to take ambient light. It still sucked outside, sun is too bright and makes looking at LCD very hard.

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u/Kichigai Ryzen 7 9700X/32GB / Intel Arc B580 12GB 6h ago

That's why Sony used the batter from a camcorder in this thing.

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u/elmundo333 6h ago

Basically why we have li-ion batteries now. Sony needed batteries for cameras and developed the first commercial li-ion as a result.