Ant wrote:
Ken Blake wrote:
On Fri, 18 May 2018 14:45:42 -0700, wrote:


I have several HP 8gb devices, metal cases, and NO keyring hole at
all.

I also have a Lexar 128 GB USB3 device that is the size of a USB Mouse
receiver, so clearly also NO keyring hole. Hell, IT is barely big
enough to grab hold of when trying to remove it!


I have one even smaller. It's completely flat, perhaps 1/16 of an inch
thick, and about the size of a small postage stamp. If I remember
correctly, it's 64KB. I got it as a distribution of a piece of
software.

64 KB?!?!

http://www.eweek.com/storage/1987-to...hes-nand-flash

1991: Toshiba Launches First NAND-Type EEPROM

Toshiba announced in 1991 that it had developed the world's
first 4M bit NAND-type electrically erasable programmable
read-only memory (EEPROM). This moves along the development
of NAND flash substantially.

[So that's 512KB right there, at the start]

Then, the Wikipedia USB article says:

(USB) Designed January 1996; 22 years ago

Finally, back to the Eweek

2000: First USB Flash Drive Goes to Market

Trek Technology and IBM began selling the first USB flash drives
commercially in 2000.

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/eleme...he-flash-drive

Trek 2000 International, a Singaporean company, was the first to
actually sell a USB flash drive, which it called the ThumbDrive, in
early 2000. (It won the trademark for ThumbDrive, which has come
to be a generic term for the devices, only a few years ago.)

Apparently that's in the 8MB era. But I cannot find a single
English sentence confirming that. You'd think there would at
least be one picture of the Trek Stick, if it was the first.

*******

The value might be 64MB.

They did make some crappy USB devices where the contacts
were printed on a piece of cardboard. The ones of those
I've received, I wouldn't *dare* shove those into a
computer connector :-) Think of the smoke and such :-)

Paul