This construction makes them much better able to stand up to the rough handling that can occur with portable devices. A flash memory card can easily serve as the removable storage medium for a portable device. The more difficult part is transferring the data into a typical computer. One common solution is to create a PC Card reader that accepts the flash memory card at one end and plugs into a standard PC Card Type II slot at the other. For desktop systems that don't have PC Card slots, there are readers that plug into parallel, SCSI, or USB ports.
Some readers even support multiple flash memory card formats.
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