Re: Usb storage device

2003-01-14 Thread Keith Palmer, Zytech

Yes in stock and on our site at -
http://www.zytech.com.au/usb/pen/index.html

On Monday, January 13, 2003, at 03:57 PM, Gordon Morris wrote:


I have seen these little plugin storage devices that go into a usb port
in computer mags. Called flash drives or something like that.

Would these work to transfer files from a windows to a mac machine?
Where can you buy them?

You can burn cds but that time consuming and wasteful if you need to
move files often.

My daughter has her book on the pc in her room, but can only access the
internet [one user adsl] on the mac. Yes, I guess you could network
...but ten miles of blue cable from one room to another ...and I HAVE
NO CLUE HOW ..and my dodgy PC might corrupt my nice imac.

These thumb drives work well on PC with Windows 2000 and XP. Windows
9x needs to have drivers installed first (of course!). You can format
them as well. So if you did that (format) first on your PC and plugged
it into the mac, the mac should see it as a PC disk. Drag and drop.
I think I have seen Keith Palmer advertise these - but the going price
is about $1/megabyte from most PC shops.

Gordo


Keith Palmer
Zytech Marketing Pty Ltd
PO Box 342 Bunbury 6231
Phone: 0419927101 Fax: 0897915900
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http://www.zytech.com.au/

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Usb storage device

2003-01-13 Thread Sojourn
I have seen these little plugin storage devices that go into a usb port in
computer mags. Called flash drives or something like that.

Would these work to transfer files from a windows to a mac machine? Where
can you buy them?

You can burn cds but that time consuming and wasteful if you need to move
files often. 

My daughter has her book on the pc in her room, but can only access the
internet [one user adsl] on the mac.
Yes, I guess you could network ...but ten miles of blue cable from one room
to another ...and I HAVE NO CLUE HOW ..and my dodgy PC might corrupt my
nice imac.

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Maylands WA 6051
Australia
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RE: Usb storage device

2003-01-13 Thread Gordon Morris


-Original Message-
From: Sojourn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, 13 January 2003 3:46 PM
To: wamug@wamug.org.au
Subject: Usb storage device


I have seen these little plugin storage devices that go into a usb port
in computer mags. Called flash drives or something like that.

Would these work to transfer files from a windows to a mac machine?
Where can you buy them?

You can burn cds but that time consuming and wasteful if you need to
move files often. 

My daughter has her book on the pc in her room, but can only access the
internet [one user adsl] on the mac. Yes, I guess you could network
...but ten miles of blue cable from one room to another ...and I HAVE
NO CLUE HOW ..and my dodgy PC might corrupt my nice imac.

-- 
Rosemary Horton

Rosemary,
These thumb drives work well on PC with Windows 2000 and XP. Windows
9x needs to have drivers installed first (of course!). You can format
them as well. So if you did that (format) first on your PC and plugged
it into the mac, the mac should see it as a PC disk. Drag and drop.
I think I have seen Keith Palmer advertise these - but the going price
is about $1/megabyte from most PC shops.

Gordo