Dainty!
I was struggling to find a suitable subject for this week’s letter in Jenny Matlock’s Alphabet-Thursday. It is the letter ‘D’ but apart from daffodils which have all gone now, my mind was a blank.
Then I had an unfortunate accident. My memory stick (you know the old fashioned way of transferring information from a computer to other media) was bent almost at a right angle. I’m too embarrassed to explain how it happened and it is not pertinent to the story – honest!
I managed to transfer the data to a new one, deleted it from the old one and just to be safe I broke up the little black stick that has been travelling around happily in my hand bag for a long time. This is what I found.
Just look at the workmanship! I have put it next to a twenty pence piece to give you some idea of the size. All those minute pieces of electrical ingenuity. Who would have thought those little sticks we plug in were soĀ intricate!
Do pop over to Jenny’s to see what other ‘D’s have been shared!
My daughter works for a huge micro-chip company and she is always amazed at the intricate beauty of the product!
This was actually quite fascinating Miss Julia.
It’s hard to believe sometimes that our world has progressed so far.
Thank you for linking.
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Pretty amazing when you think about it!
And you captured another “d” aspect of these portable drives–how dangerous it could be to lose one, depending of course on what’s on it. I always check and double-check to know where mine is.
Don’t go there! When I was a head teacher it felt like my life was on one of those little sticks!
I love it, Juilia ~~ I would never have thought of DAINTY being associated with a memory stick. But yes, it is, especially thinking and seeing what the TINY little chip and connectors inside are like. Just a wonderful post Julia. It makes me want to take one apart just to have around.
Back when I worked at NASA a similar function could not have been performed but if it could it would have taken many, many, racks of equipement to do this now simple memory storage and retrieval function.
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I did this all wrong. Thank you for your nice visit to mine. At our get-to-gether we knew two of the other couples and so only one was new to us. I forget people (lack of facial recognition capability–there’s a name for this ‘disability, Prosopagnosia) real soon as to being to recognize them. Once I know who they are then I start remembering our former meetings.
Electronics, everywhere, is so very dainty! The thing that bothers me is that a computer did the workmanship. But then, someone had to write the program! {:-Deb
Don’t worry – a human will be there somewhere!
I know -things get smaller and smaller. It’s agonizing to see hubby struggling to open his cell phone – because it’s so little and his hands are big! Great D-word:)
Now that’s another post altogether!
Dainty – great D word. I have not mastered all there is to know about flash drives, or other technology, but am determined to keep working at it!
I know just what you mean. You learn something & by the time it is part of your routine, they go & change it again!
Technology is amazing, isn’t it? To think that 40 years ago I was typing on a manual typewriter!
Yes but they were great to use especially if you were a bit cross!
Technology is amazing, isn’t it?
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It sure & & getting smaller all the time!
that so interesting … i always wonder what is inside of things … and that tiny circuit board doesn’t disappoint!
It is so creative isn’t it!
And now it’s off to be recycled, I hopeā«
Certainly!