Talk about raising a dead thread!

I have to admit that reading about the prices and the sizes of the drives as they were in '03 was interesting.

Didn't click, cuz I have no reason to think this isn't spam, but it's pretty funny to read this conversation 4 years later...

:)

I use the zip. I never had much luck with the cd rw - gave up on them right away. But I am also using several thumb drives for the off premise backups of my companies critical files. They are small and easy to transport.

Was wondering what poor rock OP was crawling from with the prices and size constraints - then I finally saw the date of the thread.

applications
 

I put applications on them,
like my slingbox slingplayer, and my mozilla firefox lite, with all my bookmarks, passwords, etc.

So, I got to any computer, and plug it in and have instantly my slingplayer without have to install software or configure, or I can run my firefox, without having to download, etc.
works great.
2GB drives can be had for 30$ or so AR.

LOL at what we used to pay for flash memory. I recently bought a 4GB CF card for $15 AR, and on black friday I got a 1GB USB key for less than $10.

Of course, I remember buying a new-fangled, 10 MB external drive that was over $500 IIRC back in the early 90s.

I got my 2GB u2 thumb drive. All those programs are great to have just in case. From Open office to firefox and my email client to a ftp software...

In 4 years time, someone will raise this thread again, and we'll be trying to remember what usb drives were, let alone zip drives.

Recently purchases a 1G for around $15. When I travel I no longer take my laptop as I have a blackberry and all of my files on the thumb drive. My shoulder and back thanks me every day on the road.

Vista ReadyBoost baby!

This is just too funny... the old prices paid for hardware...

It seems that every year the price drops and the memory doubles...

Now they are even using flash instead of harddrives (with discs) in laptops... crazy...

If anything they have gotten too small- I had one (gig) fall off my keychain a bit ago... rather annoying... now I use gmail for a lot of my documents...

Funny stuff. At a technology conference I attended last month, one vendor was handinig out 256 meg USB drives just for sitting through a very brief presentation and adding yourself to their mailing list. I think another one had some really small (storage) drives out in a bowl at their booth next to the mint tins.

Actually I got 8 of the 256MB free from officemax. For every 50$ gift card you bought for holiday season, you get a thumb frive. And I was buying some things from officemax

<OMNI>That could be the new FT sport, revive half-decade old threads here and there and we can laugh about the good ol' days </OMNI>
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