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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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Somewhat less credibly, inventors in Malaysia and China have also claimed to be the first to come up with the thumb drive. The Asian electronics industry takes off In 1995, Tan resigned from Sanyo and purchased Trek, a small, family-run electronics component trading firm in his old neighborhood of Geylang, for just shy of US $1 million.

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