Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 10, 2022
Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. In 2000, IBM began selling M-Systems’ 8-MB storage devices in the United States under the less-than-memorable name DiskOnKey. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995. The thumb drive was all that—and more.
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