Welcome To The Flash Drive Blog

Computers and I go way, way back. I can remember punch cards, tapes, and floppy disks that carried only 360K. My first personal computer ran at a blaxing 4.77 mhz. I’ve taught computer classes at both the high school and college levels. I think I can’t count the number of computer gadgets that I’ve bought.

But I don’t think I’ve ever found anything as useful as the usb flash drive. I pack a whole semester’s worth of handouts, powerpoint files, tests, readings and supplementary materials one one tiny drive and still have room left over for my personal manuscripts, and zip files of a couple of useful utilities.

Amazing. I remember schlepping dozens of floppies around in my briefcase and always needing the one that I didn’t have with me. Or having it all on a couple of zip disks, and having to carry around the drive because most computers didn’t have one.

Even better: flash drives now come a fantastic (and sometimes bizarre) variety of styles, colors and disguises. So there’s one to fit every whimsey.

Over the last year or so, I’ve accumulated a bunch of links to different flash drives and information about flash drives. And I thought I’d share those links here in my new Flash Drive Blog.

Comments

Hi

Takes me back to the 8” and 5.25” floppies - which were really ‘floppy’ - only 180Kb at first I think.  I got one in the post once - envelope marked in big print ‘Floppy Disk - DO NOT BEND’ - which had been anotated by the postie ‘Oh yes they do’!!!!

Needless to say it wouldn’t spin up after that

Thanks for a very informative blog site

Tony

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