of the contact pin will be reduced to the point that the pin no longer contacts the inserted memory media card alternatively or additionally the contact pins may be angled or shaped such that damage due to the abrupt removal of an improperly or properly inserted card is reduced or eliminated for example the terminal end of the contact pin may be angled or curved toward the planar surface from which the contact pin protrudes or may be spherically shaped adapter 300 includes planar element 330 that has standard connector 340 mounted thereon planar element 330 is adjacent to bottom planar element 320 standard connector 340 which may be for example a compact flash or pcmcia connector is surface mounted to planar element 330 interconnects 312 that electrically connect the standard connector 340 to contact pins 315 are also located on planar element 330 in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention the need for a straddle mounted pcb and its associated manufacturing costs and complexity is eliminated moreover by eliminating the layers of a straddle mount configuration registration accuracy is improved for one embodiment a single pcb may comprise bottom planar element 320 and planar element 330 for one embodiment a multi memory media adapter having only 21 pins is used to accommodate various commercially available flash memory media fig4 is a table of pin mappings for the smartmedia mmc sd and memory stick to a 21 pin connector in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.