Re: thumb drive

From: John Ski (johns50718_at_aol.comdotorg)
Date: 09/15/04


Date: 15 Sep 2004 15:24:27 GMT


>Subject: thumb drive
>From: =?Utf-8?B?YmlnYmFk?= bigbad@discussions.microsoft.com
>Date: 9/15/2004 11:07 AM Eastern Daylight Time
>Message-id: <8A8C5BF5-AD5A-473C-BB06-836B0E22AA6C@microsoft.com>
>
>are thumb drives and pen drives the same thing ?
>
They are both flash memory drives. I thumb drive plugs into the USB port in
your thumb and a pen drive is flash memory installed in a(usually) ballpoint
pen.

Cheers,
John
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
                              ***Arthur C. Clarke***



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