Pen Drive or the USB
Flash Drive as it is also known as is a data storage device, handy, removable
and weigh less. It all started with 8 mb storage when it was officially
made public in 1998 by IBM with the intention of replacing the floppy drive in
its ThinkPad line of products. The first so-called flash drive was manufactured
by M-systems under contract with IBM and was called the disgo.
Ajay V. Bhatt, an
Indian-American computer architect developed the USB. The first USB technology
began development in 1994, co-invented by Ajay Bhatt of Intel and the USB-IF
(USB Implementers Forum, Inc). Compaq, IBM, DEC, Intel, Microsoft, NEC and
Nortel joined hands together for the development of USB.
He was the lead of the team
which was formed by these seven companies. The other co-inventor included Sudarshan
Bala Cadambi, Shelagh Callahan, Shaun Knoll and Jeff Charles Morriss (all from
USA). One day he was sick of printer
plugs as they were not easy to handle and decided to invent something which
would be easy to use. Hence he and his team came up with the invention of USB
while working at Intel. The first specification for the USB version 1.0 was
introduced in 1996
