Use an iPod as a USB drive ?

[Kay C Lan]

Further to the tangent.

At the beginning of the year my son's teacher recently requested that I
purchase a USB thumbdrive so that my son could easily transfer files to the
class computer for printing - he takes a G3 PB to school, the class computer
is  windoz. I personally thought just unplugging the USB printer cable and
plugging it into the PB would be a very reasonable idea but for 'reasons'
the USB thumbdrive was what the teacher wanted. So, not having bought one
before I logged onto my Mac User Group forum and asked for recommendations.

The first response I got back was to buy and iPod Shuffle. At first I
thought it was a joke, until I did some further investigations:

Iomega 1GB Thumbdrive = US99
iPod Shuffle 1GB = US99

The Iomega does nothing but store data!

So now we all now that an iPod can store data - but in case you didn't know,
an Iomega Thumbdrive can't play music;-)