A 40
megabyte USB storage device with a
rechargable battery that
just so happens to play a wide variety of audio formats. Made by
Iomega, uses
PocketZip disks.
Especially handy if you have a recent PC or a
Mac newer than an
iMac. As this device conforms to the
USB Mass Storage Device spec, it can be used as a
boot device. 40
megabytes sure beats the heck out of a
1.44 megabyte floppy disk as far as
rescue disks go.
In fact, expanding upon that, the entire
base system for
Debian Potato is small enough to fit on one of these disks, as well as any
critical files from
/etc or
/var. Now you too can
restore your
operating system from an
MP3 player!
This also shows why
physical access to computers is usually the greatest
security hazard.
USB is
everywhere, and this makes for a
dandy tool for
booting a
computer you want to
0wn if it has no
floppy.
But I wouldn't do a thing like that.