On 1/13/09 10:27 AM, "Bruce Johnson" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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.
I can see where it would. I remember calling them "memory sticks" or just
plain "RAM" or "memory" nearly 15 years ago, long before there even was such
a thing as USB or flash drives. ("Thumb drive" is the term most commonly
heard around the office for flash drives.) I myself had never even heard
the term "RAM Module" until the just the last few years.
I've even heard memory cards for cameras and such referred to as "flash
cards". Makes me think of math... Ugh.
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