On Jan 13, 2009, at 3:14 AM, Gerald Uhlan wrote:

> Mike, you're thinking of memory cards like for a digital camera.   
> Memory
> sticks are PC boards with IC chips soldered to them on one or both  
> sides.
> Most are about 3 inches long and about an inch high.

Actually, memory stick is much more commonly used to refer to an  
external USB Flash drive, aka thumb drive, or in some cases Sony's  
proprietary Memory Stick technology.

"A stick of memory" does refer to a RAM module for a computer.

It gets confusing.

-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs



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