Back in year 2000 the best way (and the only way) to transfer large amount of data was the recordable cd-roms. The cd burner devices were very popular and fashionable and everything was burnt on a cool compact disc.
I managed to buy a yamaha cd burner and I was very happy because I could keep backups of my work. But the problem was that I couldn't pay for dial up calls or an ISDN line, and I needed a way get some documents home from the office. Burning a cd for this purpose was an overkill because:
1. only one pc, in the company, had a cd burner,
2. I wanted to trasnfer documents of 5-10 megabytes size, and 650MB of a cd was a waste of resources.
So, then, in 2002, I found the solution called usb flash disc. My first usb flash disk was a sexy designed curved device, with 32 megabytes capacity.
I was proud for my portable device, as it costed about 40 euros. Then I was able to transfer my documents with an efficient way and without the need of having access to the internet from home. With this disc I managed to maintain a collection of programming articles and resources, that I was able to read from home. I had great time with my ripped articles, and the collection was always growing.
After that great step of progress, the need of buying a new hard disk drive appeared. My old hard disk of 8.2 Gigabytes was very small for my new expectations. Then I baught a 40 GB hard disk about 118 euros cost, and it was then when I downloaded a new bios for my old pc in order to support hard disks over 32 GB.
The new hard disk seemed to be a black hole for dropped in data. Data seemed to get lost in the vast spaces of that hard disk. So, I needed a transportation unit that could give a bigger bite to the hard disk capacity. Then I baught my second usb flash disk, that I used to call it usb FLASK disc, which had a capacity of 2 GB and I don't remember its price back then in 2004 (or 2006).
At last, I could transfer videos and pictures home. I started a new collection of data, called "Cool pics" and "Cool videos" of course... And the "new" hard disk drive now seemed to be small. Then, I started to backup data in cds and purchased dvd burner for more efficient backups.
I managed to buy a yamaha cd burner and I was very happy because I could keep backups of my work. But the problem was that I couldn't pay for dial up calls or an ISDN line, and I needed a way get some documents home from the office. Burning a cd for this purpose was an overkill because:
1. only one pc, in the company, had a cd burner,
2. I wanted to trasnfer documents of 5-10 megabytes size, and 650MB of a cd was a waste of resources.
So, then, in 2002, I found the solution called usb flash disc. My first usb flash disk was a sexy designed curved device, with 32 megabytes capacity.
I was proud for my portable device, as it costed about 40 euros. Then I was able to transfer my documents with an efficient way and without the need of having access to the internet from home. With this disc I managed to maintain a collection of programming articles and resources, that I was able to read from home. I had great time with my ripped articles, and the collection was always growing.
After that great step of progress, the need of buying a new hard disk drive appeared. My old hard disk of 8.2 Gigabytes was very small for my new expectations. Then I baught a 40 GB hard disk about 118 euros cost, and it was then when I downloaded a new bios for my old pc in order to support hard disks over 32 GB.
The new hard disk seemed to be a black hole for dropped in data. Data seemed to get lost in the vast spaces of that hard disk. So, I needed a transportation unit that could give a bigger bite to the hard disk capacity. Then I baught my second usb flash disk, that I used to call it usb FLASK disc, which had a capacity of 2 GB and I don't remember its price back then in 2004 (or 2006).
At last, I could transfer videos and pictures home. I started a new collection of data, called "Cool pics" and "Cool videos" of course... And the "new" hard disk drive now seemed to be small. Then, I started to backup data in cds and purchased dvd burner for more efficient backups.
