RE: What do I call this doodad?

Subject: RE: What do I call this doodad?
From: "Andrew Warren" <awarren -at- synaptics -dot- com>
To: <cloy -dot- tobola -at- ndsu -dot- edu>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:43:36 -0700

Cloy Tobola wrote:

> I need to refer to use of a flash drive / USB drive / thumb drive. .
Is
> there a standard term for these ubiquitous doohickeys?

No, but "flash drive", "USB drive", "thumb drive", "USB stick", "flash
disk", and "UFD" are the most common and most widely-used names.

-Andrew

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