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Mon Apr 5, 1999

Claims about Memory Card Capacity, from newsgroup rec.games.video.sony

From nickzman@eskimo.com Mon Apr 5 13:10:59 EDT 1999 Article: 453872 of rec.games.video.sony From: nickzman@eskimo.com (Nick Zitzmann) Newsgroups: rec.games.video.sony Subject: Re: Memory card capacity question

In article <7e107q$m4f$1@enyo.uwa.edu.au>, Chris Jee Yen Tan <techno@cyllene.uwa.edu.au> wrote:

:) Can someone please tell me what is the size in bytes of a typical Sony :) memory card :) which has 15 blocks of memory slots.

It has 1 megabit of memory, which is 128 kilobytes. The card actually is divided into sixteen blocks, but one block is used to store names/icons for the other fifteen useable blocks. Therefore, each block has 8K available to it.