Memory cards in Europe

Don Stauffer in Minnesota wrote:
My wife took a trip to Germany recently. When staying at friends of a
relative, they went to look at some of the photos she had taken. Even
though the host was using XP on his computer, he could not open ANY of
the SD memory cards she was using. She was a little worried until she
got home and found they worked fine here. Why would cards not work on
a Windows computer in Europe?

They would not work in Europe for exactly the same reasons they wouldn't
work anywhere else in world. Which can be anything from a broken card
reader over a misconfigured system or special system restrictions to
ineptitute of the user.

jue