The yearly gasp over technology improvements... (changed from low traffic)

[GCC Consulting]

> While we were at J&K Computer (State Of The Art) in Fairfield 
> the other day picking up some new computers they just made 
> for us, John P. pulled  little keychain thumb drive (the USB 
> memory sticks) off the shelf. It was 256 Mb,
> 1.1 and 2.0 USB compliant... and so small it is barely larger 
> than the IC itself... $50. I bought two of them on the spot. 
> I mean prices of such things are getting ridiculous these 
> days, but I would bet this same device in CompUSA would be in 
> the $90 to $150 range.  (Incidentally, 1Gb thumb drives are 
> now available everywhere, with 2Gb's also available here and 
> there for big $$$)  We all lovingly do this thread about once 
> a year... but this one is going to be hard to beat... a 2Gb 
> storage device the size of a peanut for 1/4 money than the 
> same hard drive would have cost 10 years ago, and NO MOVING 
> PARTS to ever wear out... forgetting the awesome benefit of 
> being able to put the thing in your shirt pocket... 
> regardless of how filled the pocket was with "other" stuff at 
> the time.  Amazing. I just put our entire Accounting, Order 
> Entry, Inventory, etc., etc., I mean everything...
> along with filePro (both Unix and Windows) on this 256mb 
> device. I can take it anywhere and run it "on-the-device". 
> The only thing I'm missing are our archive files... big deal. 
>  This technology is just getting more and more amazing and 
> more and more useful every day.
> 
> John

Just purchased a 512MB drive for about $90.00 at CompUSA.  Have a 256MB unit
which is just the chip & connector bit need a larger one.  These are a lot
easier to use then zip disks for copying off client programs.  The only problem
is I still have some clients on Win98 and need to carry Win98 drives on a
floppy.

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting