COMPACTFLASH ASSOCIATION & THIRTY-ONE MEMBERS EXHIBITING AT 1999 PMA

CompactFlash™ - The digital film leader

Las Vegas, Nevada - February 18, 1999 - The CompactFlash Association is demonstrating the compatibility and interchangeability of CF+™ CompactFlash, magnetic disk and I/O cards at 1999 Photo Marketing Association (PMA) show in booth H185.
CompactFlash and CF+ magnetic disk cards can be used to store pictures in digital cameras and data in palm-sized PCs. The data and photo files can then be transferred to desktop PCs through high speed, low cost reader/writers that attach to parallel port or USB ports. CF™ slots are also included in photo printers. The ease and speed of file transfers will be demonstrated in the CFA booth.
CompactFlash cards are currently available up to 96MB and provide the best image storage solution for the new megapixel cameras. The CF+ Specification ensures that today's and tomorrow's devices will be compatible with even higher capacity CompactFlash cards, as they become available.
In the CFA booth IBM Corporation will be showing its CF+ microdrive in the CF Type II package. Also, Canon, DataFab, Duel Systems, FEIYA, Hitachi, PNY, Silicon Storage Technology, SanDisk and Memory Corp. will be showing CompactFlash products in the CFA booth.
The CFA has a certification program that ensures the compliance of all CompactFlash cards with the CompactFlash Specification. Products that have passed the certification program carry the CF™ logo. Compatibility and interchangeability of all CompactFlash products have been major advantages for CompactFlash. CompactFlash is the only small form factor storage card that provides product compatibility certification ensuring users that the CompactFlash products they buy today and in the future are all interchangeable and compatible.
Thirty-one CFA members are exhibiting at the 1999 PMA show. Please visit CFA booth H185 in the LVCC and member company booths.

The CompactFlash storage card is an ultra-small, removable data storage system first introduced in 1994. CompactFlash cards meet all PCMCIA standards.
A CompactFlash card can be easily removed from a camera, handheld PC, Palm-size PC, AutoPC or other host system and slipped into a low cost, high transfer rate, reader/writer to move files instantaneously to a desktop PC. Files can be transferred to a notebook computer the same way or a low cost adapter is available to allow a CF card to be inserted directly into a PCMCIA card slot.
CompactFlash cards are compatible with Windows95, Windows98, WindowsCE, and many other operating systems. For example, Windows automatically recognizes a CF card as an additional disk drive and assigns a drive letter to the card. All files on the CF card are then easily accessible by any application or utility software.
CF+ cards include CompactFlash, magnetic disk and I/O (ethernet, fax/modem, serial, bar code reader, wireless pager, etc.) cards.
The CFA was founded by twelve companies in October 1995 and now has 129 member companies. The CompactFlash Association is a non-profit, mutual-benefit corporation that promotes adoption of CF+ as a worldwide, ultra-small, removable card standard for capturing and transporting digital data, audio and images and performing I/O functions.
The CF+ Specification that incorporates I/O functions (fax/modem, ethernet, etc.) into the CF form factor was approved by the CFA membership a few months ago.
The CFA, which makes the CompactFlash, CF+, CFA logo and CF logo trademarks available royalty-free to member companies, is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.
The CF Specification is available to download free from the CFA website at http://www.compactflash.org

The CFA (logo), CF (logo) and CF+ are trademarks of the CFA and are licensed royalty free to its members.

The CFA is a licensee of the CompactFlash trademark and in turn will license it royalty-free to its members.

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This page last updated February 18, 1999