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To: Jim Greif who wrote (24676)	1/22/2004 9:35:30 PM
From: Ausdauer	Respond to of 60323

Jim, the fact of the matter is that nobody predicted USB drives would take off. That category seemed to come out of nowhere!!! Your are totally correct that nobody can predict. For years I was using a CF card in a PCMCIA sleeve as my removable storage of choice. In my opinion this was the best way of carrying large amounts of data, like PowerPoint slide presentation, from PC to PC, particularly laptops. That was clear at the time. Before that it was Zip disks. Now it is a USB drive and one-time use CD's. The market for pocketable storage has always existed. It wasn't until a photo took 2 MB, a song 5 megabytes, and a video sequence 50 megabytes that USB drives took off. Aus