[NCLUG] Good news from the hardware front

[Chad Perrin]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 06:49:46PM -0600, Grant Johnson wrote:
> Well, I noticed that Big Lots was selling a 1G USB thumbdrive for $8, 
> and I was there any way to buy some Easter candy.  Now you may wonder 
> why I am even bothering to mention this here.
> 
> It is made by Kingston, and while they are respectable, that is still no 
> reason to mention it.
> 
> The reason I mention it is that on the back, the supported OS's are 
> listed as Windows Vista, 2000 SP3, XP SP1, Mac OS 10.x and above, and 
> ....    Linux 2.4 and above.
> 
> Maybe some people are actually noticing that we buy stuff, and if it 
> does generic USB mass storage, they don't need drivers, and that 
> printing that little acknowledgment there costs them almost nothing.
> 
> I hope more people buy their products because of this.

By the time I got to Big Lots on Saturday, they were out -- or they were
pretty well hidden.  Bummer.  I needed a couple of new USB flash drives.

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CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ]
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