World PC Expo'99 press release

COMPACTFLASH ASSOCIATION & FIFTY MEMBERS EXHIBITING AT 1999 WORLD PC EXPO

CompactFlashTM Is Today's Small Form Factor Card Standard

Tokyo, Japan, September 7, 1999 - The CompactFlash Association is demonstrating the compatibility and interchangeability of CompactFlash cards at World PC Expo 99 in booth 2143.
CompactFlash card slots are in 97 digital cameras, 61 handheld/palm-size PCs and 42 other electronic platforms including printers, MP3 players, voice recorders, etc.
CompactFlash can be used to store pictures taken with any CompactFlash or PC card, ATA compatible digital camera. The photo files can then be transferred to desktop PCs through high speed, low cost reader/writers that attach to the parallel port or CF™ slots included in photo printers.
The ease and speed of photo file transfers will be demonstrated in the CFA booth. CompactFlash cards are currently available up to 128MB and provide the best storage solution for the new megapixel cameras, handheld/palm-size PC and other devices.
The CompactFlash Standard ensures that today's and tomorrow's digital cameras will be compatible with even higher capacity CF cards, as they become available. 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 data storage card that provides product compatibility certification ensuring users that the CompactFlash cards they buy today and in the future are all interchangeable and compatible.
In addition to CompactFlash data storage cards, there are CF+ cards that provide I/O capability (serial, ethernet, fax/modem, SCSI, bar code readers, etc.) and the IBM microdrive, a disk drive in a CF+ Type II package. Fifty CFA members are exhibiting at World PC Expo 99. Please visit CFA booth 2143 and member company booths.

3Com **
AMD
Actiontec
Billionton Systems
Canon **
Casio
CIS Technology **
DataFab **
DDK Electronics **
Delkin Devices **
Epson
FEIYA Technology **
Fuji Photo Film
Fujitsu
Fujitsu Devices
Hagiwara Sys-com
Hewlett-Packard

Hitachi
Hitachi Maxell
IBM
Intel
I-O Data Device
Iomega
Kingmax
Kodak
Lexar Media **
LG Electronics
Matsushita
MELCO
Microsoft
Minolta
Mitsubishi
Molex
NEC

Nikon
Polaroid
Olympus
Philips
Phoenix Technologies
Pixela
Power Quotient
Ricoh
Samsung
SanDisk **
Sanyo
Sharp
Sony
TDK
Victor Company
Xircom

** Exhibiting in CFA booth 2143

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.
The CFA was founded by twelve companies in October 1995 and now has 140 member companies.
The CompactFlash Association is a non-profit, mutual-benefit corporation that promotes adoption of CompactFlash as a worldwide, ultra-small, removable data storage card standard for capturing and transporting digital data, audio and images.
The latest CompactFlash And CF+ Specification Version 1.4 incorporates I/O functions (fax/modem, Ethernet, serial, SCSI, bar code reader, etc.) into the CF form factor.
The CFA, which makes the CompactFlash, 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 web site 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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