My first Kodak camera from around 2000, used an 8mb card. I could take something like 30 pictures.

Hmm, I have a 16MB SD card from this cheap-o camera I got for twenty bucks 10+ years ago.

I still use the 16 MB SD card that came with my first Canon digital camera from around 2005 (3.1 MP). I use it in my Palm Treo 650 to store the Palm version of a dictionary program. I don't need the space for anything else and I won't miss the card too much if it goes missing.

I refuse to give up my sweet, sweet Treo. Still works as a phone on 2G networks, too!

When I was in high school (2000-2004) we had an outdated but still very useful Sony digital camera that used 1.44MB floppies and it worked fine. 8MB of flash memory at that time would have seemed like space age technology.

Mavica, perhaps ?

^^ I used one of those in ~2001ish with a floppy-disk-shaped adapter for Sony memory sticks. I.e. you put the memory stick in a 3.5" disk "caddy" and stuck it in the camera's floppy drive. You could also read it in a PC drive with a special driver installed IIRC. Now that I think about it that would have been a 16 or 32MB stick; don't remember how many pictures it held, but it was less than a roll of film.

Yeah I agree, I have one of the floppy Mavicas and you can take a good amount of okay looking photo on one 1.44MB IBM floppy. 🤣 8MB on the other hand would be a huge step up.

SmartMedia and the damn silver/blue FlashPath floppy thing anyone? 🤣 I do have an Olympus-branded 4MB SmartMedia card somewhere around, it's for (/from? I think it was included with this) an old Camedia DSLR. The C1400L if my memory serves me well... A whopping 1 megapixel and a half or so, and it won't take cards larger than 16mb I think. SmartDisk's flash storage solution was also used on the Roland JP-8080 (an awesome synth).

I have a 8MB CF card, and a few 16MB ones. Used them in the past with my Handspring Visor Prism, with a Springboard MemPlugCF adapter. Unfortunately the Visor stopped working quite a few years ago (Yes I still have it, I'm a pack rat). You could fit quite a few ebooks in compressed format on one of those cards. I was using the Visor mainly as an ebook reader - way before the terms "ebook" and "ebook reader" were invented.

the smallest I have is a FujiFilm X D card 16MB, I think it came with the camera, probably around 2002.

I probably haven't used it in over a decade, the camera stopped working around 2005

32MB CF that came with a Nikon circa 2006 ... today it's still enough for one 36mp JPEG Fine file plus one more shot in JPEG Basic at least. 😀

Probably cheating, but here's the smallest memory cards I have (though certainly not by *physical* size!)

If we're just talking mainstream card types, the smallest I have is probably the 16MB CF card I'm using as an Apple II hard drive. The 256MB SD card pictured above is actually serving duty in a Palm Pilot. Larger capacities didn't work so well there, and the 256MB card is plenty for it.

At one point, my father had a digital camera that actually used floppy disks to store the pictures. I don't remember how much it held or what the specs were, but everything came with boatloads of jpeg artifacting.

--Zero

Well if we're talking console memory cards, then the smallest ones I have are a few Dreamcast VMUs, which have 128kB flash each. 😀

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMU

My wife had an 8Mb USB pendrive. It should be somewhere at home, but...

I've got a 32Mb MMC and a 32Mb CF card. Both were shipped with Canon cameras. The CF card came with a 4 mpx camera, but the MMC card came with a 8mpx camera... it could store about 24 pictures, the sale as old time film cartridges!

I also had a 32Mb USB pendrive, but it failed some months after I drove my car above it. The smallest pendrive I currently own is a 128Mb one. It has a bootable DOS, and I use it for BIOS updates.

Well mine "smallest" is 8mb memory stick,also had 16mb rs-mmc somewhere,all pictured card still in use,except smart media card.