One of the problems with electronic devices getting smaller is that it becomes much easier to lose them.

I remember my Dad overreacting to this once. When he bought a Sinclair ZX80 (which is about the size of a hardback novel), he tied it onto an enormous plank of chip board. This may partly have been to act as an ad hoc computer table wherever you went, but as I recall it was mainly to stop the thing getting lost.

Unfortunately, it's too late for my USB memory thumb drive and the voice recorder gadget for my iPod - I haven't seen either of them for a long time. My last hope is that we'll find them while clearing out the office for the move downstairs, but it's a pretty forlorn hope.

Bye bye, tiny gadgets. You were cool, but you were just too small.

Posted by Dunx at May 26, 2004 07:07 AM