I found the old drive that worked with my Canon camera. It's a Hitachi 2GB Microdrive from 2003. It says CF+ Type-II. So larger, with a CompactFlash interface, boring in comparison.
Still a great story, great page and impressive reverse engineering. Isn't OpenClaw vs. he did it "himself" a bit analogue to the critique "oh, he wrote the firmware in C++ and let the compiler figure out the assembly code".
Maybe you wanted to see the assembly code, and that's fine. But he took a potentially difficult problem, found tools to solve it and documented (to some degree) the process?
Pretty sure I've got one of these in a 4GB USB package[0].
[0] I'm 99.9% sure it's not SSD/SRAM/Flash because I'm 99.9% sure it predates cheap [those] by years. But I'll have to dig it out and get the full USB/HDD info later to check.
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[ 2.5 ms ] story [ 19.4 ms ] threadI found the old drive that worked with my Canon camera. It's a Hitachi 2GB Microdrive from 2003. It says CF+ Type-II. So larger, with a CompactFlash interface, boring in comparison.
More history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microdrive
I'm trying to remember the camera... Canon Powershot S1 IS maybe? It used a lot more battery running the microdrive.
Man do I miss the N-series, I had so many good phones in that era.
was this necessary? could've said "Code written by LLM" or something
Maybe you wanted to see the assembly code, and that's fine. But he took a potentially difficult problem, found tools to solve it and documented (to some degree) the process?
[0] I'm 99.9% sure it's not SSD/SRAM/Flash because I'm 99.9% sure it predates cheap [those] by years. But I'll have to dig it out and get the full USB/HDD info later to check.