Thursday, December 21, 2006

A Necklace of Flash

The fashionable flash sticks have spelt the death of the floppy disk. Apart from the new series of double entendres in which the new device has replaced its jurassic predecessor, they are smaller, more rugged and hold more data.

They also have the dubious distinction of being small enough to fall down from your pocket and go down the drain. So new flash drives come with a strap which could be worn around the neck.

If you go so far, why not go a bit further? Current flash drives hold up to 4 GB data. If you wish to have 40 GB data - roughly the information in a hard drive, you need 10 flash sticks. Instead of 10 straps, why not string them into a necklace, and get designers make you gold, silver and platinum sticks. Alternatively the sticks can be rhodium polished to make them attractive. In fact you could do more - hold them together in a key-chain or wear them like a bandolier. A new industry of stick designers will vie with each other to make custom made stick ornaments.

By which time a new memory device would have been invented to hold 1 petabyte in a chip small as a nail. And a new ornament form would have to be invented. If I'd have my rathers, I'd select Theva memory chips...

Good night gentle reader... enough verbal diarrhoea from me.

3 comments:

Mega said...

I can still recall the days when the floppy was truly "floppy" (think Apple II GS and Number Munchers). If you'd had said to me 16 years ago that flash drives would really be the future, I wouldn't be able to tell you what a flash drive was!

Anonymous said...

i saw huge spooled tape being used to store geophysical data.
wonder where those dinosaurs went.
must ask amimama

Unknown said...

Hey they made it so small for you, now you have a problem keeping it? Some guys are never satisfied...