I installed a generic memory-card reader salvaged from a friend’s malfunctioning computer and tested it with the one memory card I had lying around; a 32 MB Sony memory stick. It’s obsolete now - I don’t and have never had the right kind of camera for it - though my previous printer had the correct interface… the gist being that the stick has been sitting on my desk for about five years now, unused, yet I could never bring myself to toss it because of a reluctance to trash serviceable computer memory.
So anyway, I put the card in the reader, just to test the latter, and found a picture I took of my cats in 2007, which I thought I’d lost forever.
Sadly, the smaller cat is no longer with us, but I still like the photo itself and the luckiness of getting such a good pose, with the tail and paw in tidy parallel and all, and no camera flare in the cats’ eyes.