How much do the parts for a thumb drive cost?

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Bob I said:
CTRL-C should have popped it out.
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CTRL-C was a major arcana item in those days...

Besides on an Apple II you could write a routine that would trap CTRL-C and
render it useless.
 
JS said:
Because of the difference in mass if dropped on a carpet then my money is
on the thumb drive.
If dropped on a hard surface then all bets are off for either drive.
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Well I've (unintentionally) dropped thumb drives and even a Pockey drive on
a hard wood floor (not from two meters admittedly) and none of them suffered
any noticeable damage.

I can't wait for the day when mechanical drives are laid to a well-deserved
rest.

Can't argue with the slowness of the USB connection of course, which is
infuriating. It takes up to ten minutes to copy "Documents and Settings" to
a six-gig flash drive whereas I can do it in less than a minute to my
veteran D: hard drive.
 
Opinicus said:
CTRL-C was a major arcana item in those days...

Besides on an Apple II you could write a routine that would trap CTRL-C and
render it useless.
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On a TI-99, it was FCTN-4 - the crib-strip above the keyboard (if it
was there) would have this key labelled as "CLEAR".
And it could not be disabled in TI BASIC, but in Extended BASIC you
could have an ON BREAK NEXT statement to disable "breakpoints" as they
were called.
 
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