Look how far technology has advanced (and prices have dropped) in just 5 years!
December 3, 2009 Post a Comment Friday, December 4th, 2009, Netcast 975
It’s 2004 and Seagate introduces the Pocket Drive. (It won a 2005 CES Innovation Award.) I thought the Seagate Pocket Drive looked like a hockey puck, while others said it reminded them of that little round mouse that could be bought with the first iMacs. (Since they’re still for sale – I just checked Amazon – I’ll talk about them in the present tense.) The Pocket Drive is circular in shape with an inner rotating wheel that houses the built-in short USB cable. That’s a nice touch because you never have to worry about taking along a USB cable or worse yet, forgetting to bring one when you traveled. There’s a single blue light on the top of the drive to let you know it was getting power. The same blue light blinks to indicate any sort of data activity. Although there was a Pink Version released for Breast Cancer Awareness, most of the Pocket Drives are silver and black. They were (and still are in some places) available in 2, 4, 5, 6 & an 8 GB models. Problem is, with the plummeting prices of memory, the prices I saw on Price Grabber were very high. Almost $200 for the 8 GB version!
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