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Are people using the term "memory stick" to apply to USB keys? I thought it
was a trademarked term for Sony's proprietary memory-card format.

"Lawrence D'Oliveiro" <_zealand> wrote in message
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> Are people using the term "memory stick" to apply to USB keys? I thought
> it
> was a trademarked term for Sony's proprietary memory-card format.

I call em USB sticks or USB Disks

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <_zealand> wrote:

> Are people using the term "memory stick" to apply to USB keys? I thought it
> was a trademarked term for Sony's proprietary memory-card format.

I've heard it from some people who wouldn't know any better (they
probably don't even know what different types of memory card are
called), but I don't know where they got it from in the first place.

I'm endeavouring to correct them when I notice.

--
David Empson

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> Are people using the term "memory stick" to apply to USB keys? I thought it
> was a trademarked term for Sony's proprietary memory-card format.

Pretty much yeah,

But when you have a name so un-original and manage to keep your items a
niche product like betamax and dat then you cant expect to have brand
recognition.

"Lawrence D'Oliveiro" <_zealand> wrote in message
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> Are people using the term "memory stick" to apply to USB keys? I thought
> it
> was a trademarked term for Sony's proprietary memory-card format.

Same thing happened to Jandals.

Tony in Oz wrote:
> "Lawrence D'Oliveiro" <_zealand> wrote in message
> news:geui0l$j7k$...
>> Are people using the term "memory stick" to apply to USB keys? I thought
>> it
>> was a trademarked term for Sony's proprietary memory-card format.
>
> Same thing happened to Jandals.

And zip, aspirin, heroin.... the list is huge.

On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 01:07:56 +1300, Richard <> wrote:

>Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> Are people using the term "memory stick" to apply to USB keys? I thought it
>> was a trademarked term for Sony's proprietary memory-card format.
>
>Pretty much yeah,
>
>But when you have a name so un-original and manage to keep your items a
>niche product like betamax and dat then you cant expect to have brand
>recognition.

I hear "memory stick" quite a bit.

Some people call their PC box a "modem". Where they hell did they get that from?

Cima wrote:
> Some people call their PC box a "modem". Where they hell did they get that from?

No idea - i guess it's because (at least for most on dial-up) it's the
thing that plugs into the phone line.

On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:02:40 +1300, EMB <> wrote:

>Cima wrote:
>> Some people call their PC box a "modem". Where they hell did they get that from?
>
>No idea - i guess it's because (at least for most on dial-up) it's the
>thing that plugs into the phone line.

It gets confusing when they ring and say "my modem isn't working"!
"Internal, external, dailup or broadband?" followed by silence

EMB <> wrote:

> Cima wrote:
> > Some people call their PC box a "modem". Where they hell did they get
> > that from?
>
> No idea - i guess it's because (at least for most on dial-up) it's the
> thing that plugs into the phone line.

And they think their display is the computer, because that's where they
see everything happening.
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