How many usb memory sticks do you keep?

I only have 3, 1 for windows 11 clean install, 1 for Macrium to restore if needed and 1 blank that is used to transfer files between computers or go to CVS to make Xmas cards with my own pics.

Just looking around on my desk I see five and in my pen cup holder I have two USB sticks that are for memory cards of different types. Like micro and standard sized SD cards or what ever.

I have another USB stick in the car stereo, and two in the fireproof safe.


Speaking of floppy disks... Back in school I carried in my top shirt pocket a 3.5" floppy disk and a micro cassette recorder. I still have a USB capable floppy drive and a Zip drive. I should see if that 100 MB Zip disk has some cool stuff still on it. Though, I was in my twenties and really into porn back then so maybe I shouldn't... LOL! J/K

I currently have 8 flash drives from 120MB to 64GB.

MisterEd said:

Should I retire this flash drive?

Well you beat my old 120MB stick. I don't remember who made it but it has a Samsung memory chip in it.

MisterEd said:

My first home computer was a TRS 80 Model I. It had 84KB of RAM. When I upgraded it to use with floppy drives I had to buy two of them. Each one had a formatted capacity of 85KB. The first floppy drive was used to store the disk operating system because the 48KB of system RAM was not large enough for that.

Mine was too! I purchased mine in 1978. Like you, in your picture I got the expansion module which gave me 16k of ram up from my inital 4k. I had the tape player drive before I got a floppy drive. I also purchased the 9 pin dot matrix printer. Oh! You could cut another notch on the flip side of the floppy which makes it double sided. Radio Shack put a display at the front of the store running a program called the dancing demon. Never mind the fact that I would sometimes be up until 3am messing with this thing!

[QUOTE=MisterEd;2535891]Photo of dual 8 inch floppy drives next to my TRS80 Model I.

1 USB with BOOT + backup + restore app, for rescue and dealing with my AOMEI backups.
1 USB with special BOOT + backup + restore + test + rescue, etc, it's a custom Windows 10 usb stick that I found on this forum and its wonderful, as it works with old and new computers, even those difficult to boot without purely internal drives.
1 16GB for data transfer.
1 32GB for testing OS configurations.
1 old and magical USB2, because (in case you don't know this is a thing) some computers, tablets, etc, won't boot properly using USB3 drivers.
2 SD / micro SD

2 of those are never touched (the rescue tools)

MisterEd said:

I forgot to include a photo of my flash drive. Here is one. If you look closely at the right side you can see its size of 32M. I may have gotten it a job fair. That would make sense because being only 32MB meant it wasn't worth much anyways.

My original TRS-80 Model I came with a Level I 4K ROM and 4K RAM. I upgraded it to a Level II 12K ROM and 16K RAM. The expansion interface added 32K RAM bringing the total RAM to 48K. Note that was maximum RAM because the 16K space above 48K was reserved for the system.

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My little flash drive had print on it but since worn off. I still use it to keep personal info on it.
That's right! We also had to boot up the Model 1 from a boot floppy. If I remember I had around $3000 in my TRS-80 system.
I could type by the hunt and peck the key method. I finally went to the book store and got a book to learn to type on a typewriter.