Posted on 09/22/2004 6:41:10 PM PDT by neverdem
Tony Cenicola/The New York Times
DreamWorks Pictures
NOTICED - Tom Cruise takes a flash drive from Jamie Foxx in the movie "Collateral." 
Marty Katz for The New York Times
Ellen Lupton of the Maryland Institute College of Art wears hers on a lanyard around her neck. She added a personal touch, a decorative piece of tape.
Interesting tech ping
I just got a couple last week because SP-2 for WinXP seems to have put my CD-R software out of commission for the moment.
Very handy. I think this may finally put floppy disks out of business.
I have a 512mb on my ID lanyard I wear in the office. I have another built into a pen - 256mb - I keep in my business binder. I have a USB CompactFlash adapter I use the same way with 2x340mb MicroDrives and a 1GB MicroDrive. I was an early adopter of this and it is great to finally see it catching on. Dell doesn't sell their notebooks with floppy drives anymore (unless you want to pay extra) and they instead recommend the jump drive.
I saw one on line recently that is a USB jump drive AND a video/still camera. Coool....
Love mine.
Already old?...I just heard about them a few weeks ago and got one a week ago. I love them but pray tell what's really new?
I got my last one for free. The in-store at-the-register discount plus the mail in rebate came to -1.50, so I guess I made bux on the deal.
Hard to imagine how we got along without them.
Carry 120 floppies around your neck....
I keep my mail app on one, so when I change computers my whole email setup, program and files, are all there.
Whatever would we do without the New York Times to report on the hottest technology of 1998?
However, these things do pose a security risk and I'm sure corporate networks are going to start cracking down on this. It's currently very easy to plug one of these things in any computer and grab a bunch of files without anybody even noticing. I've read about kids going into computer stores and stealing entire programs this way.
I have a Dell Dimension L733r that 4 years old with Windows ME. Do you have any idea how I could use it? I believe it has one USB port for the printer.
You know what would be really great ... a complete, portable O/S stored on a flash drive that you could port from one computer to the next.
Pardon me for trying to learn.
Well, in '98 the packaging was in cards and rarely in little dongles. To use USB you had a little card reader. To steal Gameboy carts you used a different reader, but game carts were all flashram, and many digital cameras too.
It has not been that long since the current crop of plug-in the USB port dongles showed up.
But you are right, in '98 flash cards were hot! I tripled the size of my MP3 player when the price dropped just by sticking in a new card.
Try adding a USB hub.
Thanks for the link, but wouldn't I have to have some sort of splitter for the single USB port on the back of my computer that currently serves the printer cable?
Plug the printer into the hub.
Or...if you're feeling adventerous, buy a very inexpensive PCI card to install inside your PC to give you more ports. (Approx. $15-$20) Plus an added bonus is that any card you buy today will be using the USB v2.0 protocol that is much faster than USB v1.0.
I did it for my Win ME PC and it has been a real boon. Especially when running backups to my external 120 Gb USB hard drive.
I prefer the fashion of a Sig, myself. Never goes out of style!
You don't just plug it directly into the USB port?
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