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I remember there being a few years from like 2002 to 2004 where it was clear Zip wasn't the answer (mostly because nobody had a Zip drive) but flash memory was
by phire 7y ago
I remember there being a few years from like 2002 to 2004 where it was clear Zip wasn't the answer (mostly because nobody had a Zip drive) but flash memory was too expensive.
Emailing files to yourself and Multi-sesion CD-Rs were popular for two or three years before suddenly everyone had USB drives.
- jandrese 7y agoThose early flash drives were so damn tiny. I still have a 128MB drive from when that was pretty impressive. Those rewritable CDRs never worked that well. The price of regular CDR blanks dropped so hard that it was easier to burn a new disc each time.
- phire 7y agoMy first drive was just 16MB; It was so useful. And I never successfully used a rewritable CD, something always seemed to go wrong. I wasn't quite rich enough to burn a fresh disk each time, instead I would append new files to regular CDRs until it was full or I lost it.