looking for VERY SMALL USB thumb drive

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Hello

Last year I've seen a VERY SMALL USB thumb drive being used by a
customer from the United States. But so far I couldn't locate this in
Germany.

I'll try to describe this and would like you to tell me the manufacturer
of such devices if you think you know them.

OK, here I go:

It was early 2004, the thumb drive had a capacity of 256 MB and it was a
USB 2.0 device. (I think a combination of features like that wasn't even
available here at all during early 2004, but I may be wrong.)
The physical size of the device was about the part of a human thumb
until the first joint if you start counting at the fingernail. The
device was also very thin. Maybe 2 or 3 mm. The last thing I remember
very well is that the connector was not the typical USB thumb drive
connector but it looked more or less like a piece of the thumb drive's
PCB without any kind of stabilizing stuff around it.

I'd appreciate if you could Cc your reply to my mail box.

thanks,

Thomas

 

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Thomas Adams wrote:

> Hello
>
> Last year I've seen a VERY SMALL USB thumb drive being used by a
> customer from the United States. But so far I couldn't locate this in
> Germany.
>
> I'll try to describe this and would like you to tell me the manufacturer
> of such devices if you think you know them.
>
> OK, here I go:
>
> It was early 2004, the thumb drive had a capacity of 256 MB and it was a
> USB 2.0 device. (I think a combination of features like that wasn't even
> available here at all during early 2004, but I may be wrong.)
> The physical size of the device was about the part of a human thumb
> until the first joint if you start counting at the fingernail. The
> device was also very thin. Maybe 2 or 3 mm. The last thing I remember
> very well is that the connector was not the typical USB thumb drive
> connector but it looked more or less like a piece of the thumb drive's
> PCB without any kind of stabilizing stuff around it.
>
> I'd appreciate if you could Cc your reply to my mail box.

Froogle "USB flash drive 256MB" and you get approximately 115,000 hits,
about 5000 of them confirmed. It's a common item in the US and comes in a
wide range of styles, in capacities up to 4 GB.
>
> thanks,
>
> Thomas

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Thomas,

I think this is what you're talking about:

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=20-214-007

I have a couple of them and they work great!

Regards,
Eric

Thomas Adams <thomas.o.adams@gmail.com> wrote in news:42263e18$1
@olaf.komtel.net:

> Hello
>
> Last year I've seen a VERY SMALL USB thumb drive being used by a
> customer from the United States. But so far I couldn't locate this in
> Germany.
>
> I'll try to describe this and would like you to tell me the
manufacturer
> of such devices if you think you know them.
>
> OK, here I go:
>
> It was early 2004, the thumb drive had a capacity of 256 MB and it was
a
> USB 2.0 device. (I think a combination of features like that wasn't
even
> available here at all during early 2004, but I may be wrong.)
> The physical size of the device was about the part of a human thumb
> until the first joint if you start counting at the fingernail. The
> device was also very thin. Maybe 2 or 3 mm. The last thing I remember
> very well is that the connector was not the typical USB thumb drive
> connector but it looked more or less like a piece of the thumb drive's
> PCB without any kind of stabilizing stuff around it.
>
> I'd appreciate if you could Cc your reply to my mail box.
>
> thanks,
>
> Thomas
>