Cartouche de Memoire

A long time ago there were keyboard synthesisers and it was a real pain to save anything you'd created on them without backing it up to tape like, a cassette recorder (retro-gamers will know what I'm on about.)

Then the revelation - memory-cards - that could hold a whole 128k of bits (and bobs.)

The Yamaha DX7 was a synth that had memory-cards or "cartouches des memoires" as was written on the French page of the manual.

Because we were young and poncey we loved that expression and it kicked-off much "pass me the cartouche de memoire, I feel a hit single coming-on..." or "don't worry, I won't forget, it's all up there in my cartouche de memoire..."

Told you we were poncey

Now, I have the hama usb 2.0 card-reader from ASDA that can read over 32 memory cards.

Can't beat a "cartouche de memoire" though...