Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 10, 2022
In 2000, IBM began selling M-Systems’ 8-MB storage devices in the United States under the less-than-memorable name DiskOnKey. Yen Meng Jiin/Singapore Press/AP Tan, the third of six brothers, was born and raised in a kampung (village) in the neighborhood of Geylang, Singapore. Meanwhile, the thumb drive lives on.
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