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[challenge entry] 'ningles all

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(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 10:20, archived)
# hehe
The most useful USB device I have is a caddy for hard disk drives, so you can plug any HDD into it and use it as a USB drive. Very handy when I used to build PCs for fun
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Fri 21 Jan 2011, 10:21, archived)
# Yeah started using those when I worked in IT
Although piggybacking hard drives is still more fun.
When image searching for USB I did see a Hellraiser cube USB hub.
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 10:24, archived)
# Hah!
Soon we shall have to explain what these were to younger generations, like I had explain what a 12" record was not so long ago
(I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 10:24, archived)
# 'ningles mate.
Yeah I had Who's Line is it Anyway on teh telly this morning and a girl pointed at Josie Lawrence and asked, 'Is that Cathrine Zeta-Jones?'

EDIT: God I remember the days of having to install OS's with a battery of 3.5's.
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 10:26, archived)
# yip
Windows 3.1 and MS Office3/4 was about 30 disks in total
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Fri 21 Jan 2011, 10:29, archived)
# 3.11
even more diskettes.

There was actually no market research behind the 3.5. The CEO of IMB one day went to his development team and said, 'I was a disk small enough and rigid enough to be kept in my shirt pocket.'
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 10:34, archived)
# really?
for it's day though it was enough. The CD came along just in time and the DVD after that. Now USB flashdrives can hold up to 1Tb. I doubt it will be too long before we are seeing Petabyte drives in standard use
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Fri 21 Jan 2011, 10:41, archived)
# Again
the CD could contain the data it did so it could hold the entirety of the Sony CEO's wife's favourite piece of classical music.
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 10:47, archived)
# really?
you know a lot about this sort of stuff.
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Fri 21 Jan 2011, 10:55, archived)
# Yes
Just nothing about anything useful:P
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 11:04, archived)
# LOL!
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 10:27, archived)