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[darwin dali]

Which for a brief period replaced the good old floppy disks.
I just bought an 8GB USB 2.0 flash drive for 18 bucks. Heck I can backup my entire OS on it and still have room to spare!

[bud]

I have one lying about somewhere! Got it in 99 I rekn

[Denthúl]

Which for a brief period replaced the good old floppy disks.
I just bought an 8GB USB 2.0 flash drive for 18 bucks. Heck I can backup my entire OS on it and still have room to spare!

8GB is tiny.

I still have a Zip drive. I also still put floppy drives in all my computers

[Stephen]

I've got an external Ditto drive kicking around - this was the tape drive version!



Those were the days...

[darwin dali]

Which for a brief period replaced the good old floppy disks.
I just bought an 8GB USB 2.0 flash drive for 18 bucks. Heck I can backup my entire OS on it and still have room to spare!

8GB is tiny.

I still have a Zip drive. I also still put floppy drives in all my computers

Wakey wakey: the 21st century is here!

8GB is pretty big in my book, especially at that price. I don't even know what the max size is at the moment. Anybody have a 64GB or bigger? And what did you pay for it?

[bud]

8GB is small, Terrabyte external HD are available now days.

[darwin dali]

8GB is small, Terrabyte external HD are available now days.

Did you read my post??? It's a flash drive, a thumb drive, a tiny little pinky-sized dongle that you can carry in your shirt pocket!

[bud]

yeah the title is about Zip drives but then went on to talk about usb flash drives. so what are you trying to say about Zip drives? but i have a portable hard drive that fits fine in my pocket thats 160gb! I use it for my timemachine as well as for my work. but its not 18 USD.

[Denthúl]

Which for a brief period replaced the good old floppy disks.
I just bought an 8GB USB 2.0 flash drive for 18 bucks. Heck I can backup my entire OS on it and still have room to spare!

8GB is tiny.

I still have a Zip drive. I also still put floppy drives in all my computers

Wakey wakey: the 21st century is here!

8GB is pretty big in my book, especially at that price. I don't even know what the max size is at the moment. Anybody have a 64GB or bigger? And what did you pay for it?

Yes. And floppy disks have saved 90% of the computers that my colleagues have brought in for me to fix

I actually have a 64GB Kingston DataTraveller. And a 32GB Corsair Flash Voyager. And a 16GB Corsair Flash Voyager. And I did not pay a penny for any of them

[darwin dali]

Which for a brief period replaced the good old floppy disks.
I just bought an 8GB USB 2.0 flash drive for 18 bucks. Heck I can backup my entire OS on it and still have room to spare!

8GB is tiny.

I still have a Zip drive. I also still put floppy drives in all my computers

Wakey wakey: the 21st century is here!

8GB is pretty big in my book, especially at that price. I don't even know what the max size is at the moment. Anybody have a 64GB or bigger? And what did you pay for it?

Yes. And floppy disks have saved 90% of the computers that my colleagues have brought in for me to fix

I actually have a 64GB Kingston DataTraveller. And a 32GB Corsair Flash Voyager. And a 16GB Corsair Flash Voyager. And I did not pay a penny for any of them

So, there ARE 64GB monster jump drives available, eh? They are still of a small form factor, right? How much is the going rate for those, do you know?

[darwin dali]

yeah the title is about Zip drives but then went on to talk about usb flash drives. so what are you trying to say about Zip drives? but i have a portable hard drive that fits fine in my pocket thats 160gb! I use it for my timemachine as well as for my work. but its not 18 USD.

The implied conclusion is that an 8GB jump drive replaces up to 80 Zip disks (depending on the capacity of the disks you use) and over 6000 floppy disks in a very transportable small form factor at a fraction of the cost.

[Jensonb]

We had a Zip drive for a while. For a very brief period, they were a great solution.

[stonemonkey]

Which for a brief period replaced the good old floppy disks.
I just bought an 8GB USB 2.0 flash drive for 18 bucks. Heck I can backup my entire OS on it and still have room to spare!

I remember the zip drive, had one for my amiga briefly before if finally packed in. 100mb disks?

The pc i'm on atm has no disc drives, the hdd (if you can call it that) is solid state and there's usb and card slots.

had use of a pc at work once that used 8" floppies, they were huge (in size, not capacity).

[scotty]

had use of a pc at work once that used 8" floppies, they were huge (in size, not capacity).

The things that were true floppy disks right? Jeez, i remember those... i was only in year 2 at school when they last appeared!

[stonemonkey]

had use of a pc at work once that used 8" floppies, they were huge (in size, not capacity).

The things that were true floppy disks right? Jeez, i remember those... i was only in year 2 at school when they last appeared!

Yeah, they were in the sort of paper folder thing lke the 5 1/4" disks were.