1GIG USB Stick
I remember when I considered myself lucky to own a 100mb hard drive. I just can’t remember exactly what year that was but I definately recall that it was NOT FREE.
I just redeemed a card for a FREE 1GIG USB Stick at the Micro Center. One Gigabyte!!!! That is 1000 mb or ten times the size of my 100mb hard drive.
It is hard to understand how they can stuff that much memory into such a small space. The thing is about two inches long and three-quarters of an inch wide. I just hope none of those bytes fall out. I would never be able to stuff them back in again.
It even works on my old win98 machine. Formated out to 967mb. I don’t even feel cheated that it did not format out the full 1gig.
My very first hard drive was in an IBM PC. It was only 10mb worth of storage and cost over $300. It was also the size of a small shoe box and took up a full sized 5-1/4 inch drive bay. That was around 1980.
Had someone told me then that I would be getting a free 1000mb USB memory stick that could fit in my pocket, be portable, and work like a hard drive but not have any moving parts, I would have thought they were nuts.